@ Ever Longer Enough Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

How you can be my heart’s content
From across I chose you, and we speak
Different languages. We share love
From other continents, we share the earth
The sun, moon and we look to the same stars.
We learn freedom from each other
We have developed signs, we speak
Much alike, similar are our stories.

There are a few hundred thousand people
Who are asking for their stolen revolution
How long will be the trickeries abound
There is no force known to mankind
Who can stand before the strength
Of silent water. Who has, enchained
An expanded mind? Who has but given up
To truth. Has lies won ever longer enough?

-On “a military coup underway” in Egypt.