Ali Rahimi Poems

Shake hands, stroke my hands, with your bare hands,
Love to feel your palms, direct, plain and sincere,
Unblocked, straight, uncovered, utterly natural,
Feel your soft skin after a heavy rain,
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Why are we kept waiting?
We are forced to wait,
In long queues, at registration desks, at airports, passport controls,
Yes, we’ve got to wait,
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I shot my grandmother!
A blunder, a faux pas!
Did I bark up the wrong tree?
The mischief is done,
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I am an uninhabitable unprofitable country,
A devastated, run-down unlivable land,
A godforsaken zone,
Unappetizing, unwelcoming territory,
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He dared not sleep,
lest his heart stopped to bleed,
he purred, and whined in his sleep clenched his teeth,
shook his knees pang, agony, fury and fatigue,
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Dance to fire inside, celebrate,
Fierce forceful flood of full-blooded foray, liberate,
Fire of love and passion, that’s fortunate,
Bright days to anticipate,
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It is the gyration of a generation
Man's cure to his solitude and suffocation
Was once most ignoble sin
Worse than blasphemy and pestilence and bastardization
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I am pensively looking at my calendar,
In this gloomy uneventful November,
Things happened I don’t forget, never ever,
Promotion of the abuser, user, scientific butcher,
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Sunday, day of the Lord,
Day of the goddess of sun,
Let’s have fun, fun, fun,
Teacher, student, farmer, or a nun,
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What is the meaning of life?
Why do we feel such an aimlessness, emptiness?
Kids go to ISIS, DAESH, escape their families,
Feel like social misfits, eccentric mavericks,
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