Mahfooz Ali Poems

They've seen a lifetime of faces,
centuries of paint and pain,
they've seen old men die and babies walk,
the stories they could tell,
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She pronounces three words like a threat.
He stiffens, refusing the cue,
resisting her sentence of debt.
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Doll asked Mahfooz if he thought
she was pretty,
Mahfooz said, 'No',
She asked him if he would want to be her forever
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Let me be your eyes
Then only beauty will you face
Flowers and butterflies will you see
Avoiding ugliness, misery and disgrace
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Chasing wishes, planting dreams
the moonlit sky and how we gleamed
walks at night with the misty rain
watching flowers while holding hands
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Holding you close, your hands touching mine
And we don't feel the time passing by
In my heart, oh, I 'm crying
Because of this tender touch we share
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It hurts more to laugh than it does to cry,
It hurts more to live than it does to die,
Sorrow releases and gives me hope,
Somehow someday I'll learn to cope,
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You told me you 'd love me, so why didn't show it.
You said you wouldn't leave me, so why did you blow it.
You seem to always be, there when I was crying.
You didn't know my tears, were caused by your lying.
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I sailed upon the sea of disappointment,
my raft was buffeted by bitter swells.
I clung to my now battered life preserver
as the wave of broken promises compelled
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I once knew of your love
As a rushed feeling where
We only past love through one
Path we never knew what love
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