Have You Ever Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Have you ever

Have you ever
Stood by ant-hole
Stared at bees’ nest
Watched goats fighting
Seen leaf in the wind
Observed the grass bow, Muslim-like pray
Looked at the sand dunes crawl baby-kind
Run for the girl’s hair that is chasing her, both of you shadows
Called on lost father with tear in eye among the injured

Have you ever
Watched the dancing clouds
Seen the falling rain, or the snow flakes
Observed the bush in the rock/stone
Looked at a fallen fruit
Run to hanging cherry
Called a water-kissing willow
Stood by a lazy black swan, with red sign
Stared at nowhere, this is everywhere

Have you ever
Talked with fly on a baby’s booger
Told the mosquito ‘keep sucking blood’
Kept a scorpion with love and fear
Gazed at a snake; asking of apple

Have you ever
Known what I am or who; why tired of this life
Seen the pollution in water and air
Talked with corrupt in office, on the road
Cared for a uselessness consumer
Asked why they we are pain, the pain in the butt

If you have or have not
Let us be the charcoal, half alive and half dead
Burn ourselves and give life
To what has remained
Let us become ash