On Your Back Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

On Your Back



On your back comes the stealth
On your shoulders hangs the corpse,
The dead lay buried on my soil
An army of ghosts by my walls.
You speak to the mirror,
And thus claim to have won.
The flogging tongue, all muscle
In cheek, -does not matter,
On alms thus espouse
Empty jar on your head.
Once more to your neck
The child killed by a shrapnel,
The homeless flock to the barn
Trail of Tears, -hunger, disease, dishonor.


The Trail of Tears is a name given to the ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek) , Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory in eastern sections of the present-day state of Oklahoma. The phrase originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
February 26,2014.

Trail of Tears @ Patheos

Sunday, May 25, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: love and art
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