Ali Rahimi

What happened to your salad days?
We look back at our lives,
We live in the past,
We look at the mirror,
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Trust me, I am a tricky magician,
Follow me like a sheep, I am a corrupt politician,
Love me like mad, I am a Don Juan, a womanizer,
Hug me, I am a cruel policeman,
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I want a world where,
The deaf can hear,
The blind can see,
The lame can walk,
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He wrote a treatise
On my intellectual shortcomings
I was in a miasma
Of despair and agony
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Rightly or wrongly, we shall come back,
Wanted, unwanted, liked or disliked,
Of our own free will, determination,
We shall come back,
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I like a person who sees the world with the
symmetry of sunflowers,
vastness of oceans,
grandeur of mountains in Iran and Nepal,
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Tea leaves refresh childhood memories,
Evenings after hard work as a construction laborer,
Cigarette butts bring to my mind,
Friends who puff me away, in delight, indulging in pleasure,
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In this dog-eat-dog life,
Where grief and boredom are rife,
Keep away from all sadness and strife,
Come over to me, lose no time, rush,
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Everybody wants to save the world,
But nobody wants to help the kid do the homework!
Everybody wants to salvage human beings,
But nobody wants to help the lonely weak old guys,
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Love invades you, Love assaults you, Love kidnaps you,
Love entraps you, love ambushes you, love cages you,
You try hard to protect your garrison, by soldiers,
Of logic, brain, reason and wisdom,
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ONCE! ! !
silence was once a disease, now a cure
brain was once the commander, now the slave
lie was once a sin, now a virtue
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Education is a lucrative corrupt market BUT offered as a method of transmitting knowledge and insight,
Freedom is torture and terror BUT defined as the right to do and say what you like,
Truth is manufactured by powerful leaders BUT regarded as the opposite of falsehood,
Honor killing is an abominable heinous practice But adored as an honorable glorious event.
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Children are bundles of fun,
Heaps of joy, mountains of love,
Hoards of affection, hills of kindness,
Stockpiles of tenderness and fiery affection,
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My silence is pregnant with meaning,
Replete with dreams and yearning,
Dreams nipped in the bud,
Desires ruthlessly rubbed in the mud,
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A kiss is lovers' lips tenderly meeting,
their hearts fast musically beating,
in the meantime,
their minds beautifully shrinking,
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YOU are the intact roseberry
at the hills of yorkshire,
out of reach of human greed,
you are the red coy apple,
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He was the cornucopia of emotions,
Alas, her land defied all matter,
Disillusioned and nonplused, he muttered:
Nature abhors vacuum,
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Love him, and he will,
climb the lofty soaring Mount Everest,
bare foot _ for you,
walk indefatigably backward to the North Pole,
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Her hair was made of thorn
cause of where she was born
her heart was made of golden threads
but was tied by molten threats
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Alcohol is the queen
Tobacco is her consort
So we can still die
We'll still be able to die
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