Samah Khan Poems

I know what a heartbreak is;
It is not the actual destruction of a heart,
But the loss of something that constitutes the beat;
The rhythym is perturbed, the mind is shaken,
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NOTE: this poem carries a special significance for me because I left someone I cared about only because I thought it would make him happier...

Forgive me love,
I do not write these words to cause you grief-
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Adichia stood at the edge of the sea
A shawl around her slender form
Below the blue sky, shaded by the birch tree
Her eyes squinted, her face forlorn
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'Tis not the fear of death in slumber
That keeps me awake night after night,
But rather the thought of waking up
In another day just like the last-
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My heart bleeds under the weight of my penance
And with each tear that I shed,
Ten drops of blood and sweat are freed
And then there’s nothing left
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The barrenness of life strangles me with its force,
Its ineptitude to gratify my appetite speaks of the misfortunes I’ve had;
Life has neither offered be friendship nor enmity
But has borne wilted flowers, and fruit gone bad
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The war cry sounds across the land,
The hills tremor with fear, melting the sand,
No animal strays, nor walks a man,
When the battle cry sounds across the land
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That which keeps my sense alive
Is not the Science explained through the ages,
Nor the History of all the bloody battles and equally bloody conquests
Nor wars, plague, fires and people
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The leaves curl with the dusk of the day,
Like cats they coil and shrink;
They bend their green (or such) crowns as if to pray
And raise it not till the sky grows pink
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Will you not walk a mile,
Where ten are asked?
Will you not hold on to the line
Over which the rest have surpassed?
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