Firoz Ahmed Ebrahim Poems

born free
like an eagle soaring in the sky
the nest always in sight
unlike a collared falcon bound to it's keeper
...

this senselessness
left her wasted
left me wanting
every tear she shed
...

you can
barricade the border with barbed wire
you cannot
stop the rain from falling
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lying on a distant windswept hilltop
far away from the brazen carpetbaggers
with their colgate smiles
slinking on the fringes of the kitchen cabinet
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the soul
like an empty seed
impotent
sucked sterile
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