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And I Returned
Turning back from the verge of eternity.
It was close but good luck
Favours almost the one like me.
I could see them;
Some, burning in wild flames,
Others, bathing in mild sun.
bodies of wool;
Birds never glimpsed in fancies
Flying beside the glass pool—
And I returned.
_____Muhammad Shahab.
A Nightmare
On the highway across the bridge
I saw you
A shepherd I was
Standing in a nearby field
Plunged I in front of your car
You saved me
And died yourself.
Still I’m empty as a hollow bamboo.
Often I think of the accident
When I wake up.
A nightmare
Horrible it was.
_____Muhammad Shahab.
A Life For Us
“Never leave me” she whispered
In my left ear.
It was yesternight.
Why would I do that?
It’s not the life
That separates–
Only death
But…
There’s I hope
I dare say–
I faith
A life that will unite us
In spirit and in body
A life for us;
Me and you.
_____Muhammad Shahab.
Jump Little Monster
Jump!
Jump little monster
The river rushes for you.
How poltroon you are.
Decision once taken
Stand comme il faut.
Stand!
Stand where you are
Little monster do not fight.
The world is up to slaughter you
Anyway.
Jump Lilliputian monster
You contemplated it
Now prance
For your life
Guzzle up from Lethe
She would not come back.
_____Muhammad Shahab.
Standing On A Seashore
I am standing on a seashore
Like a vessel for departure.
The sea calls me in
To explore new places,
To see new faces beyond
The ordinary horizons
But I’m afraid as fear calls me out
To a distant city where we meet people.
The same old faces I see everyday
Where I belong, cannot leave.
The city dwellers, the nightwalkers,
The clerk and the watchman.
Stand and sit for a whole life,
To bread and not to change.
I am the one with an old axe,
Cutting the edges, not of the sea
But myself to sharpen my shape,
Not to be fierce but to be foul;
And I am standing, standing
On a seashore, unprepared.
_____Muhammad Shahab.
