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If she survives...By Safi Abdi

 

It's her fate to suffer the foolish

The only glue cementing the ruins

A dried flower without the care.

 

She feeds the baby

And keeps the man on board, too.

 

An expert in ducking bullets

Graceful to the core

Though offended,

Wholesale,

The woman

In the flowing dress's a veteran,

Voiceless in a tragedy absurd.

 

Her plight no hairs ruffle

Her hopes neglected remain

Overwhelmed by men

Sightless in the daylight

She hawks her wares

In the sunlit mess;

Knowing God counts her woes.

 

If she survives this reckless age

It's no thanks to the man on board.

 

Copyright @Safi Abdi...2004

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