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ReplyDeleteBelow is one of my newest poems called Rotten Apples, please let me know what you think.
Rotten Apples
Children manifest toys into guns, fun into danger,
Potential into waste, while marrying today in hopes of burning tomorrow,
All while parents are asleep, but why bother keeping awake?
Rotten apples make for sour pies, I relinquish my slice
Why bother awaking the dead just to inform them about the living
Your daughter is self administering heroin in the alley where she lost her virginity.
Your proud son has swept his last tear while swinging his rainbow colored noose around his delicate neck.
You are oblivious to the noise of rotting apples left neglected.
Pretending to salvage what was once whole,
Now unrecognizable mush,
You make pie out of rotten apples, and utter everything will be okay.
You say what you do not know, complacent from abundance of sleep, And ignorant to the signs.
Frankly, your taste buds have rotten along with those apples.
Tracing back to the roots, infestation has taken the tree, infecting the fruit.
Unseen to the naked eye, it all stems from the cyclic neglect; rejecting the truth
All must be annihilated to contain the spread and all fingers point back at you
Had the grower been aware of the seeds, nothing would have ever been planted
I repeat, rotten apples make for sour pies, I relinquish my slice.
By Hana Aw-Dahir 2013
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ReplyDeletecity of coffee ...written version (http://www.awkward-muslimah.blogspot.ca/#!http://awkward-muslimah.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-city-of-coffee.html)