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Family Tree

Posted: March 26, 2025 in Poetry
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Our mortal lineages…

Divide over decimal…
Points of difference…
This Distance…
Measured in multiple instances…
Of misread misprints…
Facts and figures…
That obscure the bigger picture…
Part pieces of a whole…
Of nations and tribes…
Peoples all alive…
Wise words to know and learn…
Across this world…
That spins…spans…shapes…

Branches into metaphors…
From the core physics…
Distilled to the sciences…
Philosophies…
Alchemy…
Mystics…
All paths intrinsic…
To the human mind…
Heart, body and soul…
To boldly go…
Where no one had gone before…
And explore all the unknowns…
And return back home…
Whether from this dream…
Or far beyond our hopes and fears…
To realize we are all whole…
Forever from the same family tree…
Across this world and the cosmos…

Justice for All

Posted: December 23, 2024 in Poetry
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We breathe…
Bleed…
And believe so similarly…
Yet some are living soliloquies…
Wondering why some aren’t listening…
Are we not family…
Losing my sanity…
As I pen down each manmade calamity…

Perhaps the differences skin deep…
Still keep us fated…
As separated…
Carrying this worlds burdens…
At different weights…
Wondering when will this hate go away…

Because we can’t…
Resign ourselves to this fate…
We have to fight…
For justice for all…
Who have been so wronged…
In a world shared by us all…

Justice is no end…
But a state of being…
That I hope we will all achieve…
Within our lifetimes…
For the human family…

Brown Eyes

Posted: July 25, 2024 in Poetry
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In front of me…
Such a beautiful sight…
With a beautiful shine…
That binds my eyes…
To follow hers…
As I wonder what words…
And what verbs…
Could help us converge…
And converse…
At this place…

With just us two…
My hopes let loose…
Praying she notices me…
A potential partner to be…
As I try to see…
Her eyes…
Brown like this earth…
Mixed with sun and water…
To give birth to all the colors…
In this rainbow of humanity…

She sees…
And I smile back…
She smiles too…
And we proceed to chat…
On this beautiful sunlit day…
Beautiful in brown…
Love in the making…

Sea Me

Posted: June 1, 2024 in Poetry
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I imagine an endless sea…
With a cool breeze…
And beneath..
The reefs…
Teem with so many sea creatures…
Living colorful lives…

While humanity resides above…
We take peeks below…
The clear waters…
Dotted with boats…
I have my own too…
But it’s more of a dinghy…

Bumping in the waves…
As I wave…
Big smile…
At my fellow human beings…
Do they see me…?

I imagine they do…
But maybe I’m not so important today…
Just like every other day…
As I pace and face my fate…

I won’t sink…
But instead I’ll be forced to live…
Forever on the brink…
Grow old and grey…
And lay alone…
At peace with my fate…
Floating in this sea…
As I see all this happiness around me…

Alone in the Grey

Posted: April 11, 2024 in Poetry
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Intro: One of the saddest things about being alone, is not having a person to talk to. When you have so many things you want to share, but no one is around to listen. It’s even worse when you know people who would ignore you or not care if you tried to talk to them. So we’re left with so many faces that turn grey and fade until we see nothing but clouds…

Watch as the clouds gather around me…
Keep me company…
And add to this cold…
Feeling…
They muffle my echos…
Words asking for someone…
Lost in this shadow…

If only it could rain today…
So the sun can shine tomorrow…
Hopes that someone would follow…
Break through the grey…
So I can smile again…

Instead I must fend off…
This never ending life long lesson…
Know my place…
In this world of so many faces…
All grey to me…
With no words to say…
With no way for things to change…

Alone in the grey…

Trying to open

Posted: January 21, 2024 in Poetry
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It’s so hard to open up…
As I’ve been shutdown so much…
So many times…
I try…
But my own mind…
Thinks and speaks all the weird things…
That weird them out…
Please hear me out…
As they walk away…
And I they fade away…
Into my dark place…
Where all these memories accumulate…
Whole books and torn pages…
Meant to turn…
Bear witness to my pains…

Every time I try…
Every time I try…
I keep getting denied…
Why???
Why???
Shut it down…
Forever…

You are a good person

Posted: January 15, 2024 in Poetry
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You…
You are a good person…
You are not defined by others…
Yes I know you seek love…
And acceptance…
And friendship…
And feel so alone…
Just know as you walk this road…
Wondering when to stop…
And lose all hope…
No light…
Only shadow…
Cast by the beings…
Who choose to ignore…
This good person…
Who remains unknown….

There must be more…
There must be more…
And you are more…
It’s doesn’t matter if they don’t know…
Or care…
It has no bearing on your soul…
You are a good person…
And that is what you must know…

Choose Life IV {Saved}

Posted: October 13, 2023 in Poetry
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I understand the meaning of strife…
But only through the lens of this life…
For each individual’s soul’s strife is so unique…
For that reason alone I refuse to be your judge or jury…
Only a fellow human being….
Begging you…
Please…
We breathe, bleed, and believe so similarly…
Living individual soliloquies…
But often with audiences of none…

Or just one face…
Projects back pain…
Shut shattered in vain…
Wondering why & and who to blame…
Soul so boldly claims…
My First Middle last name…!

No you are more than what you say…
Or what you believe…
Unique and beautiful being…
Beaming with light…
Don’t give up the fight…
Set your sights on the bright days…
Past this cold dark night…

Easy for you to say…
Even easier to write…
So removed from my plights..
Some nights I close my eyes…
Hoping to never wake up again…
And end this life sentence…
I’ve been punished with…

Not while I stand here with you…
Even if you’ve lost all hope…
Even if you’ve locked all doors…
Just know I’ll be outside braving this “cold”…
And I will never let you go…

But I’m barely known…
Have that look of let down…
Seen before all too many times…
By my own two eyes…
But behind those cloudy tears…
I see someone so sincere…

Why don’t I fit in…?
Why must I be so different…
Am I just some symptom…
Of some diseased substance…
That should’ve never been….

This fight will never end…
Have to fight till the very end…
By your own decisions…
Until then I will listen…

Doesn’t have to end tonight…
Nor does something new need to start…
Know that you heart…
Beats for you…
And I’ll be here too…

No you’re not

Posted: August 15, 2023 in Poetry
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A day…
Where the stars seem to align…
And eyes lock…
And hearts seem to open…
Hoping you tell me…
What I’ve wanted to hear…
But as I get near…
All my fears show their faces…
Lost are any traces …
Of care…
Forever alone and despaired…

The Good Son – Kufa

Posted: July 21, 2023 in Poetry
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I’m trying to imagine being in one of those under siege households…

I watch…
A letter…
Written by a governor…
Read by a son…
Promising safety…
And security…
Do not help the traitors…

Behind these promises…
Sensing something ominous…
He can’t just stand here and accept…
Must take those steps…

As I watch as him pace back and forth…
Much like I would…
As we are not saints…
Humans full of flaws…
Torn between dunya and akihra…

(He says) I must depart…
But not without your ijaza…
Dear mother…
I hear the rumblings in this city…
Muslim ibn Aqeel has disappeared…
Has his call fallen on deaf ears…

Not another word…she says…
Our love for the Ahulul-Bayt…
Transcends this time and space…
Go…
Take your place among the righteous…
I will wait to see you again…
What can be said about a mother’s love…
For her son…
And the divine path towards Allah…

But his fate would be different…
Caught in the throes of a police state…
A knock on his door…
With a response of absolute faith…
Labbaik Ya Hussain…
As they take him away…
His fate would not be on those blessed plains…
With certain scribes sullying his faith…

However his angels know better…
As they record his deeds…
His mother knows better…
As she bears witness…
To the son she helped shape…

His Imam knows better…
His Creator knows all…
And I now know too…
His and many others truths…

As I depart…
Take one last look at the River Euphrates…
As it calls out to me…
Back to the present…
I among many…
Will continue to tell your story…

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