This Can't Be Fate Poem by Muhammad Ali

This Can't Be Fate

Rating: 5.0


I can't leave
For good
Some things
I hate

How to escape
But this prison
Soul in a body
No window or gate

I wish a moment
Breathing presence
I lived an age
Date by date

How can the Sun
Be my companion
I fall early
It sets late

Thursday, July 14, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: emotions
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Loke Kok Yee 19 July 2016

A lot said in this lovely poem Fate is just a word, you can look at it from different perspectives. thanks

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Nosheen Irfan 20 July 2016

A beautiful and meaningful poem. Very well-conceived and well-crafted. A lot said with an economy of words.

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Valsa George 24 July 2016

Our body is a prison in which the soul is caged.... When the body becomes still, the soul will fly to its freedom! 'I lived an age/ date by date'........ these lines demonstrate the ennui of worldly existence....! A great write!

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Mj Lemon 12 March 2017

This is excellent poetry, and a deep insight into human nature.....the inability to part with things and circumstances hated...too true of the human condition. A 10.

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Susan Williams 01 January 2017

This is why I read poetry- -so I can see through another human being's eyes and feel and experience beyond what I personally experience. This is so extraordinarily well-written and moving. 10+++++++++++++++++++

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Akhtar Jawad 24 August 2016

A wonderful thought nicely described in a lovely poem.

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Unwritten Soul 05 August 2016

What a strong statement, i like the poetic expression you included inside the poem! ...Open your hand, you cant see what your hands can do but they can do more than moving fingers....thats what in you, you cant see what else you can bring...God write a destiny for us, but He let us decide to change it as it is or to break it and show it better...If sun not around is not mean its not there, it just another side...stars are still around to show you there is bright luck in the darkness...no matter how dark the life could be...Rise!

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Edward Kofi Louis 25 July 2016

Life! This prison. Thanks for sharing.

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