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‘AMBIVALENCE’ / ‘THE PORTRAIT OF MY GRANDFATHER’ / ‘IN THE NIGHT (II) ’ / ‘A LETTER TO MY DEAD BOYFRIEND’ | four poems by Imam Sarafadeen

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Ambivalence

In Sha Allah, we shall get exactly what we asked for
In this land, where all we get is terror
We asked for water and got flood
We asked for living and got blood

In Sha Allah – Imam Sarafadeen
The last time I smiled was 
when my neighbour murdered her husband 
because he didn't give her money//Today, I smile again 
because I heard my community is now the most corrupted area in the world. 
A dog that lost its home came back to bite its owner - 
they say it is because the owner did not make any attempts to find it. 
How about a mother who left her son and ran away 
but came to find the son after she heard that 
the son is now wealthy and rich?
I stand at the balcony everyday 
to see how people are wandering 
around aimlessly but none of them 
look up to see how joyful 
I am to find myself 
in this 
community.

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