Tell me How
How do you escape
Out of this tangled mess?
How do you erase,
And make your worries less?
How do you go on
When everything has fallen apart?
How do you move on,
And get over the loss of your heart?
How do you conceive
The fact that your love has died?
How do you believe,
And still have faith in those who lied?
How do you swallow
The concoction of guilt and grief?
How do you follow,
And deal with life when it’s so brief?
How do you flow
With a current that is way too fast?
How do you know,
And be sure about details of the past?
How do you act
When your whole body’s paralyzed in fear?
How do you resect,
And get rid of the parts of you that sear?
How do you get up,
When each and every person is pushing you down?
How do you light up,
And be happy when you have every reason to frown?
How do you attend
To people when you too, are afraid of the night?
How do you pretend,
And feign that everything’s going to be alright?
– Fatima Noor Al Sahar
3rd Year (Q-45)