"you can do what you want with my body"
she said with his hands at her throat
"oh but you cannot touch what is spirit,"
"my life is not yours to be owned"*
all the time it has taken to speak up
and show you the woman I be
has been counted itself a commission
for everything you didn't seek
I will love you today and tomorrow
and look at the past without fear
rebuking the source of your anger
with all that I have while I'm here
see, my mother and father are with me
in Truth and in Spirit and flesh
and today I am stronger than ever
for you and for me and for them

She says she is another drop of water in the ocean
It means she does not know the fate of a tiny drop
She says a drop of water carries rainbow with sun
She does not know after that glow life is just to stop

She says she lives with me in my heart in my room
And she tastes me till the first lovely streak of dawn
But she does not know the real dejection and gloom
She carries in her beauty the romantic dance of swan

Life is in transit ,love in trance and beauty in romance
So no one is clear and sure about the coming destination
A drop of dew is in love with a streak of sun to dance
Every living thing has a function and a typical fashion

Col Muhammad Khalid Khan
Copyright 2016 Golden Glow

How does one learn not to hate
after facebook shows me a group of teenage thugs
savagely pull an old man from his car
and proceed to kick and sucker punch him
under the guise of who he voted for
if that were the reason
then why did they pick up everything that he
dropped on the ground and place it in their pockets?
How can someone be classified as a human being
that commits such an inhumane act upon a fellow human
I contemplate what I would do if I were there
to witness this cowardly attack
I could not stand by and watch as it appears
bystanders did
My stomach is in knots
my heart is thumping like a train
in my contempt for these cowards
these pathetic individuals who swarm like wolves
not in the name of survival
but in the name of hate
when I think our species might be progressing
I see such disgusting behavior and feel years of progress
were only a mirage

There’s this
pressure
on my ribs
reminding me
of every choice
I’ve made
and doubted.
You can’t undo
things you’ve
done in this life,
and you can’t
move on
if your mind
won’t let you.
-JRM