Submitted By: Kifayah Abdul-Quadri

I invoke no spirit as I pray
Even if my wish were to come true today
But life is best when spent well
And put to rest.

If I knew how or when
Thy fate be end
Alas, no one knows
And then of why to kill death
Be to live and die
Wouldn't there be peace
For a mind and soul
If life be not of lease.

Mockery reigns vividly
In the land of sympathy
Conjugal love timidly
Breeds the seed of life
The breathtaking chameleon
Worth not be the sea's wife
Even my blood shed betrayed words.

Oh! Mortal flood
An institution of my heart
You deprive and defunct
I pray thee to depart, be gone
Thy worst hath been done.

Two Equal Parts
It's been so long since we saw
You do not appear in my dreams anymore
I remember you today
And the promise I made
I still cannot believe
You've gone away
I miss our run and play
And how we quarrelled
And then didn't speak
To one another for a week
But I wasn't good at it
For I always talked to you first
And sometimes you could be so annoying
Doing things that made me want to cry
At the same time laugh.
You were smart, easy, and dependent.
I wish I had been to you a better friend
But I try to be as I write you this poem.

^1/ We are from Allah and to Him we shall return.

© Kifayah Abdul-Quadri, 2003