Mahfooz Ali Poems

Where has the time gone?
I'm thirty years old
My hair is about to grey
My cheeks becomes hollow
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Shattered glass,
Cigarette ash,
Muffled cries for help in pain,
Cries in vain,
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Oh mother, I am so weary; can you not
gather me in your arms and never let
me go. Oh mother, my arms are outstretched
in supplication, in supplication
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I'd like to feel the joy of raising
my own little girl or boy.
To be there for 'daddy I love you'
and help unwrap every festival toy.
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Love your country,
Love your life,
Love your family,
Especially your wife.
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Little boy blue
I would if I could
Haul you up in my mended fishnet.
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I'm still your loving partner
can't you wash away all your
wrath and resentments,
Try to understand my sentiments
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One day she feels funny, in the morning she got sick
Started to get bigger, then she feels the baby kick
Some days she feels ugly, she thinks she looks too fat
Other days she is moody, and acts just like a brat
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Sometimes I stop and wonder,
What I saw in you...
Was it in your gentle words?
Or the simplicity in the things you do?
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My mind wanders back,
from time to time,
to the place of the winding road
where first I saw her…
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