What Makes Us Cling
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By Famida Basheer
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What Makes Us Cling
What makes us cling to life and lust
What makes us loathe to pray? What hinders both the eye and heart And makes us go astray? Is it but greed for breath of life Is it the yearn to own To see, to make, to keep, to break, The baubles of life's tree? Look far over your shoulder now See all that has gone past. Through centuries of life's distrust There is one truth that lasts- The love of hearts for other hearts The know of soul of soul The sense that we have all been born To know that we must go. How same we are! How very same ! And yet we senseless be To see each life as unalike. So fractured at the knee! (c) Famida Basheer - 08-25-2014 |
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Submitted: Monday, August 25, 2014
Last Updated: Monday, August 25, 2014
About the Poet
Wife, mother,grandmother (Love that part best!) writer, editor, content writer, gardener, bird lover.
Other Poems by Famida Basheer
- Life for a Christian Begins at Deat
- Miracle
- Mists
- Morning Walk....Again
- Newfound Friends
- Ocean Pangs
- One More Cheek
- Outraced
- Precious
- Rainy Afternoon
- Reed Mats
- Rest
- Return of the Insomniac Prodigal
- Rusty Remembrances
- Shhhh...
- Smiles. :)
- Soar
- Sometime Later
- Soul Song
- Stippled Leaf -light.
- Strings
- Sunbeam Prima
- The Mind of a Strategist
- The Mysterious Force
- The Tibetan Refugee
- The Voice of Mary Magdalene
- Time
- To a Leaf in Fall
- Today at Dawn
- Tread Softly
- Ungrammatical
- Unrequited in Oklahoma
- West after Sunset
- What a Pleasant Day!
- What Gets Me Most
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- You Grow You Know
- Your Name.
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