Ali Rahimi Poems

What happened to your salad days?
We look back at our lives,
We live in the past,
We look at the mirror,
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Trust me, I am a tricky magician,
Follow me like a sheep, I am a corrupt politician,
Love me like mad, I am a Don Juan, a womanizer,
Hug me, I am a cruel policeman,
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I want a world where,
The deaf can hear,
The blind can see,
The lame can walk,
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Rightly or wrongly, we shall come back,
Wanted, unwanted, liked or disliked,
Of our own free will, determination,
We shall come back,
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He wrote a treatise
On my intellectual shortcomings
I was in a miasma
Of despair and agony
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Her hair was made of thorn
cause of where she was born
her heart was made of golden threads
but was tied by molten threats
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Everybody wants to save the world,
But nobody wants to help the kid do the homework!
Everybody wants to salvage human beings,
But nobody wants to help the lonely weak old guys,
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ONCE! ! !
silence was once a disease, now a cure
brain was once the commander, now the slave
lie was once a sin, now a virtue
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Education is a lucrative corrupt market BUT offered as a method of transmitting knowledge and insight,
Freedom is torture and terror BUT defined as the right to do and say what you like,
Truth is manufactured by powerful leaders BUT regarded as the opposite of falsehood,
Honor killing is an abominable heinous practice But adored as an honorable glorious event.
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A kiss is lovers' lips tenderly meeting,
their hearts fast musically beating,
in the meantime,
their minds beautifully shrinking,
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