Infertility Of Life Poem by Samah Khan

Infertility Of Life



The barrenness of life strangles me with its force,
Its ineptitude to gratify my appetite speaks of the misfortunes I’ve had;
Life has neither offered be friendship nor enmity
But has borne wilted flowers, and fruit gone bad

Life treats me as if I were abducted,
A kidnapped soul to be deprived food of the flesh and food of the mind,
There are roads and valleys and crosses and bridges
But I can seek only solace, but rarely solace I find

Crossroads lead to dead-ends, which lead to back-tracking,
But I am tired and my legs are weak;
The moon is missing, the stars are feeble,
I can hardly see my own hands, let alone see what I seek

No one offers a friendly hand, or a kind word of comfort,
They are content to censure me with skeptic looks of disdain,
But I do not wish for their approval or their sentiments,
All I want is release from my incessant pain

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