The poet's father suffered from dementia and he forgot all language except the phrase Aa jao . Chandan makes it a poetic metaphor and wrote a beautiful poignant poem. Amarjit Chandan's only failure is his utter faith in spontaneity. Not that anyone is going to make out that some of these poems were written in their entirety while running about on the humdrum business of the day. I feel the poetic craft needs some polishing even among the best of poets.
Nobody can deny what is called 'aamed' in Urdu.
Many world masterpieces have been written in this creative surge. Chandan is a craftsman par excellence. Last year while reading selections from his book, he took the Lahore Press Club audience by storm. Poetry can be performed. Most of the classic poetry of Punjabi was sung and performed but now pritnted poetry is a different genre.