Choice
What do you see when you look at me?Was this my decision? Is it really me? Do you see me as a symbol of oppression or tyrant rule?Do you pity […]
What do you see when you look at me?Was this my decision? Is it really me? Do you see me as a symbol of oppression or tyrant rule?Do you pity […]
Bricks, so jagged and roughThey make everything seem so toughVaried they are in size and shapeBut are the same in their guise and scrape.There is no doubt that all of […]
Starved and the furious,The days are long and unwinding.The first year,After four days of fasting,I decided that it was too hard.My very livelihood was at stake,Or so I thought.I was […]
I could write this in metaphors,Project imagesOf my parentsSitting at the dinner tableAt MaghribSipping waterThrough prayersSaid in unison,Of my brothersFighting about whoGets to ride shotgunOn the way to taraweehOnly to […]
It’s been a while since I’ve been on a train. Stood on concrete platforms Awaiting its arrival while Munching on a cookie From a nearby vending machine. Suddenly it arrives […]
I lay awake with deep regrets, On what has come and gone What’s been promised has now been set Its now too late to right my wrongs I see my […]
As wet and haggard we walk towards the shore, ‘Be gone’, they scream, ‘we will have no more!’ No tired, no weak, no weary may lean on us, Part once […]