Mahfooz Ali Poems

The room I'm in has many doors.
The keys are seldom found.
When I choose to take a path
I end up back around.
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Need a glass of water
I miss you
try to learn to tie my shoes again
I tried too hard
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My sister, my blood, but not my twin,
You seek life outside while I seek it within.
Different, you say, yet we are very alike,
Even if I get spares and you get strikes.
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Calm fills the air
as day falls away
with tender care,
I'll quietly say,
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A wolf howls to the night sky
I watch from afar, wondering why
Why is he wandering alone in the night?
Did he give up without a fight?
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When I was just a little boy and would hurt myself at play,
I would run and find Ma, and she would kiss the pain away.
The tears would turn to laughter; I was happy on my way.
Oh, how I remember Ma when she kissed the pain away.
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I can no longer see the beauty inside me.
For my mind is corrupted, and full of broken dreams.
My heart is forever broken, my soul forever scared.
All the things I want to have, now seem so far.
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Like the mostly empty notebook,
my mind is nearly blank.
The pen won't focus on filling up the page.
Inspiration must be running low today.
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I shut my eyes.
The cool night air
chills my skin.
I sense,
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Heat, Heat is the key to life.
Without heat, we freeze, and cold.

It does not matter if the door is open,
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