How Ordinary I Am! Poem by Abdul Wahab

How Ordinary I Am!

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Handle me as you handle
An egg or a piece of glass
If you break me
Either you can get a yoke
Or shards

Do not step over me
You will either
Make me useless
Or cut your feet

So take care of me
As you take care of you
It does not matter
How powerful you are
And I am ordinary

Hands upon hands
Those very common
And clenched fingers
With veins, tight
Can make a fist
Harder than a hammer

So treat me
as you treat yourself
no matter
how ordinary I am
but I have enough power
in my fragile shells or shards
to make you powerless

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Aftab Alam Khursheed 10 May 2013

pain and grief which hid in the poem is very powerful...well penned nice message =1

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Titto Mutunguti 09 May 2013

great poem..people should learn to treat others with respect

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David Wood 09 May 2013

A powerful poem about how we should treat others. A good powrrful write

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Valsa George 09 May 2013

A Great Write! However ordinary a man may be, he has immense potential and strength within, if properly harnessed! So each one has to be treated with due respect. 'Do unto others as you would like others done unto you' is a golden principle! !

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