I Look At Them Poem by Akbar Singh

I look at them
And yearn
Bulging biceps
White smiles
Drifting dollars


Hollow eyes

So we learn not to
look at their faces
Just around
But still we wanted
Still we hoped


To be like them

And forget how to
Hope
How to
Yearn
And reach and make and


Feel

Send us back
to yesterdays
To puddles and purple
That puppy and
Father's lost stories


Bring them back

I want to be
Naive again
When I used to yearn
And
Hope


When I was young inside


When I used to
look at them



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(Guyana,2019)