Was Not One Christ Enough? - M Yusuf Abbasi - Poem

Was Not One Christ Enough?

Take away!
Take away this face!
No one sees
Close these eyes!
Close them forever!
No one shall smile into them.
Hide these hands,
Rough, rude hands
No one shall hold them.
Let me go on the thorny path
The endless way,
Is it too late to ask
Why I chose the cross?
For my mother
Old and ailing
Failing and failing
On the verge of life.

Why did I burn
My youth?
Why did I bury my dreams?
For my little brothers
For my little sisters
What is my return?
What is my gain?
No one looks again
All have gone
To their happy homes
And I am left alone
A damned drone
Tired to the bone
I stand alone
And often I ask
Why I bore the cross?
Was not one Christ enough?

M.Yusuf Abbasi- Published

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