Poems from Fahiru
I held the score card
For checkers
A game I didn't know
A game I didn't play
I couldn't balance
The moves
I couldn't see
The faces
I...
There is a commonly used word
But nobody knows what it means
Yet like a scratched record
The word keeps resounding
In sentences
In songs...
Abba, Father
You held my hand
I took the step
You watched me grow
Before I leapt
I brought your lunch
And kissed your cheek
And we'...
You can't suppress their needs
They said
Boys will be boys
They say this as if
There's nothing wrong
With letting people
Have their way...
Is it pleasing, I have wondered
To make schemes of going under
Noses, chins, and suspicion of
The ones we claim to trust and love.
So...