Have You Ever? ? Poem by Hiba H Zantout

Have you ever seen the flower bloom so beautifully and felt the chill of what God can bring to life?
Have you ever seen the rain, from the moment it started falling till the second it evaporated?
Have you ever understood why a mother cries alone at night for just no apparent reason?
Have you ever understood why the young dies even if he/she had no illness?
Have you ever spent your time alone thinking about life and its causes, ways, smiles, and cries?
Have you ever spent your time alone thinking about death and its beauties and wonders?
Have you ever accepted a person for what he really is or you had some shallowness in your judgment?
Have you ever accepted the thoughts, ideas, advices, & opposing points of view that others say?
Have you ever loved people for how they think not for their social status?
Have you ever loved your surrounding, adapted to it in order to live happier?
Have you ever lost belief, faith, love, thoughts, friends or family in a moment of anger or pain?
Have you ever lost your trust & belief in yourself because you have failed once?
Have you ever looked at things from all sides and based your judgment on?
Have you ever looked at the general & detailed plan to have a better result?
Have you ever imagined what life would be like without people, things, love & faith in it?
Have you ever imagined the way you would feel if you didn't have trust in yourself thus in others?
Have you ever wanted to be the center of the world owning everything you ever ask for?
Have you ever wanted to be away from the center and near the edge cause you needed a break?
Have you ever thought that all these feelings and thoughts prove you are only human?
Have you ever thought & been so sure that being human is nothing but the best gift from God?

Wednesday March 10,2004