Paths !

Paths were made

Sealing one’s fate.

Tunes high n low rung

For the songs of love and hate

Regrets will eat me up

Ghosts of past emerging high

Wake me up from this nightmare

 Reality’s also bitter, so I cry

Why I looked for others

Why felt pain of everyone

Lost in those paths; never meant for me

Tangled in the yarn; that others spun

Or is every stone stacking

In its place, is at home

Confusions organized as myriad divisions

Still clinging to faith; my only option.

(Samima )

A black heart!!

Words sugar sweet, allude intimacy from start

Personas angelic and a divine facade

Found people with thousand faces

And all have the same black heart.

Lectures filled with moralising

 Beliefs high, reflecting priestly art

Infernal in deeds with malignancy impart

And all have the same black heart

What’s the use of false shrouding?

Is life a masquerade of deceptive art?

Purpose lost and essence very flawed;

For those having the same black heart.

(Samima Shah-Faheem)

Elastic Morality

Its either black or white,

Rigidness high, while judging other’s matter

Dish things out, but can’t take from platter?

What grade your child’s getting?

Staring the dress, “which sect u adhere”?

There’s much “Haram in your Halal, I swear”.

 Judgments sharp & opinions negative.

Got sentenced, 't was inevitable

Dealing with a moralist, goodness a fable.

But Moralities turn lax & principles elastic

When self was to answer

Grey is important, as line in white & black blur

“My Children are only children

 they will soon learn”..

“what's  haram or halal? …. I earn”..

“Well life is about gives and takes”

and “opinions often misleads”

There’s eventual goodness in all My deeds.

Cold judge for others

For self are lawyers, temperate

are bigoted souls and religion is hate. 

(by Samima)

That Despicable Self.

Selfish people

With indulgent lives;

Denying others,

(Even) vulgarity shys.

Living on lies

Eating on vile,

Mean in sight

Despicable smile.

Using nobility

And virtue metaphors;

Are at loss,

These bigoted trolls.

Rage overpowers against

Such brainless fanatics,

Deal very wisely;

And method Socratic.

Slow and steady,

Yet very consistent;

Some rhythmic drops

Can crack mountains.

For such sporadic vexers

Becomes that regular teaser;

Give lesson of a lifetime

(But) not of Brutus to Caesar.

(Samima)

Stay Spirited (by Samima)

Stay Spirited by investing in others

Expend part of you on them, clear smother

Love, honesty and smiles will help you stem

It can be compassion, or adorance for them

Make people around a part of you

Happiness will be enriched, and sorrows few

Fake attitudes and bigotry won’t buy much

Altruism lasts long, has a strong touch

Like a new day gives us another chance

Giving it to others also, is way to advance

Finding faults in others won’t be best endeavor

 Leave behind bad, as Goodness lasts forever.