Murtaza Hashwani Poems

Although my feet are worn to shreds
My journey ended nowhere
Because I am incapable
I have neither a lamp nor the ability
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When the scale tells me I've not gained a pound
When my glasses or phone or keys have been found,
When the cop pulls me over but spares me the ticket
When my ice cream cone drips and I get to lick it,
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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
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Life is crazy
And totally unpredictable...
It's going to push you over,
Kick you while you're down,
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This is a daily reminder
To relax,
To not get angry over small things,
To stay calm.
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Again I'm sitting with pen in my hand and paper in front of me,
Breaking all the doors, trying to set my feelings free.
Carefully I'm choosing the words to write.
Don't want to keep anything inside.
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If Only...
A prayer was held in our nation,
Beauty was seen in more ways than one,
Children who are lost could find their salvation,
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For most of my life, I've been on a quest
To discover just who I might be,
Earnestly searching, day after day,
So desperate to recognize me.
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If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley — but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
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though I stand before you boldly,
trim in rank and marking time.
You do own to hear me faintly
as a whisper out of range,
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