Three Short Poems About Sadness Poem by Syed Ahmed Shah

Mother would never let me out of sight
If I tried to run away
She would pull back the umbilical cord with a jerk

Now that she is gone
I am at a loss with my legs
She never taught me to run

I go back again and again
To remind her
She forgot to take with her
The other end of the umbilical cord…
…..
They got it all wrong
The building block of the Universe is
Not the Higgs Boson
It is sadness…
…..
Here, Doctor
Your hands please
Let me examine the fingers
That stroked the brow
And felled her with a blow…