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Believe me
I have known
Life
I have known grief
I have been joyful
I have been at peace
Amidst tribulations
I have shed tears by
The bucketful and
God let me go on
Without any answer
to my sadness.
What are words about
Love?  Are they ever,
Can they ever be more
Than symbols uf things
More real?  More treasured?
Oh Poets be not proud.
A child's laughter is more
Profound.  But that too is
But a symbol of something
Inward, of the Spirit.
I realize now that God is
Polite.  He does not ever
Interrupt our petitions
Our woeful prayers but
Waits until their end
Before He answers
Then is wait   upon our
Notice  He has Answered
.  Let us  now Sing
His Praises for He Is
Good as those who know
Believe. Know  Believe    
Hallelujah  hallelujah
Amen  


For Aretha
 Aug 2018 Tanzim Ahmed
Khoisan
Combatn't Xboxed Acne wars
No controls out of contrast
Abrasive attached and
Detached by peer pressure
And hormonal nightmares
Losing the race for space
Attention deficit disorders
In the evolution of adolescence
vulnerable stage of life
Silent crimson tears rolling and trickling deep into the heart's shallows
My Goddess, tell me how could i ever wipe them off?
        ...off the cracks of my swelling cardiac veins
Your decline burning and heating my skin without consuming it
Now, watch my chest choke in failing to cough out the pain of your fall...
     ...the fall of my beautiful rose, to be by strangers trampled upon forever
So it's possible for a Goddess to be consumed in mortality's weakness ?


These Khalisees and Aphrodites consoling me, say you are at peace now
And if i keep mourning your soul will boil in the heat of trouble
But i remember you said only I, was your all...i know i was your peace
And now, isn't this restlessness i hold a manifestation of the love i have for you?
A love whose purity has been choked by the sword of nature and time-frame
May your soul come again...
For how could i ever dance to the song of life without the strings of your soul?
Strings that went breaking when you my goddess proved to be a mortal
Wrote this piece when my Mom passed on. I always felt my Mom was a goddess, my all. This Goddess proved to be a mortal after months of battling Leukemia.I miss her

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