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Amad Tariq Jan 2019
I once dreamed of being a healer
Now it's me who needs repair
My past haunts me daily
The cause of my despair
This life is not for me
Here I am lamenting sorely
For the war-torn world before me
Amad Tariq Jan 2019
All the words in the dictionary wouldn’t be enough
To describe her work I’d be left stuck
Thinking back to all she has done
Loved me unconditionally when no one else would
Made me her world cause she knew no one else could
Stuck by me always even when I ignored her
I can’t thank her enough for all that she’s done
But I can love her forever before she’s gone
I say to you now, love your mother before she departs. We all have a very short time on this earth. Life is full of uncertainties but among all the haze there is but one truth, your mom loves you more than anything.
Amad Tariq Jan 2019
I hide behind a wall
A wall of masculinity
Taught to be a stone that never cries
I hide the pain
Chase it away
I let the thoughts roost inside my head
Tormenting me as I lay in bed
This stone wall a curse
I'll never forget
All the things I never said
The more I hide the worse it gets
But I'll never show them that side again
Amad Tariq Jan 2019
I was once told I could follow my dreams
But suddenly everything was chosen for me
Now I’m trapped in a hole with no light to see
My freedom was stolen from me
There are times when I wish I was someone else or something else. Free to choose without judgement, but I know it’s only a dream and I live with learned helplessness.
Amad Tariq Jan 2019
All my life I’ve been compared to those I’ll never be
But when I need the most support they all abandoned me
Now I’m broken beyond repair
Sitting there with a blank icy stare
My family looking back not knowing, that they were the fall of me…
When I said family at the end I define “family” as those I consider close to me, friends, parents relatives alike.
Amad Tariq Jan 2019
There are times in which I wonder
If it was ever worth it to love
I forged a heart of stone only to have you melt it down
Now I sit there on the ledge once again let down
You opened me up and left a hole
From that hole I’ll smith again a heart so cold
I promise you I’ll never love again
I may not be as experienced, I may not be that far in life but for all the times I loved all my walls get built to be torn down again leaving me exposed and left in the cold.
Amad Tariq Jan 2019
Sitting there upon the freezing cold
Gazing at a dying star
A broken body witnessing a broken soul
I lay there thinking of words unsaid
Of time not spent
The winters cold a freezing lament
I close my eyes and whisper to thee
Goodbye old friends

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