Friends Or Enemy? Poem by Afzal Shauq

The question...
who to avoid
or whose hand I shake?

I see them
With their angelic looks...
Great deceivers
sucking life's blood
doing satanic acts.
I see them
with dusty tattered clothes...
the wandering lost
miss used by those of wealth
always looking skyward.

I see them
With sweet flowery speech...
Having granite hearts
and the looks of a snake
hidden their venomous bite.

I see them
With hundreds of faces...
Flattering their tongues
lacking humanity
and not worthy of trust.

And again the question...
who to avoid
or whose hand I shake?
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Poem In Pashto By: Afzal Shauq
Translated in English By: Alley Boling
Book: 'TWIST OF FATES' Poem No.6/Page.33
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© Afzal Shauq