POETRY: Mudassir Khan
 

Choose Me

(Mudassir A. Khan © HAZRAT 2004)
 

My rotting body in my grave, proves

Rigor mortis of your spirit!

I want to claim that it is dark in here, but,

I do not remember the light to compare it with.

I watched and helplessly pled silently,

Wondering how is it that people,

Get away with murder all the time!

 

I wish you were here to brush these worms.

And wipe the mud from my soiled face

Caused by the dripped rain in here.

Tell me for what crime was I punished?

Why such harsh sentence on me?

You are obsessed with things that deny reason!

Why did you choose to kill me?

 

Instead of pushing a baby carriage,

You’d rather adventure walking your favorite dog!!

My decomposing brain has the right to ask:

‘Why was I not allowed to be born’?

I wish you were pro-life

And not pro-death!

You could have given me for adoption!

 

You took away my right to live.

Is your world really better without me?

I wonder if you even gave me a name!

Or am I more null and void

Than the cancelled checks that you do keep!

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