by Naseef Ahammed | Oct 22, 2023 | Poetry
My heart weeps for I was a boy once,Cycling in an Arab street of Sharjah,A street that looked like the one torn apartIn the brutal extermination of Gaza. My heart weeps for I was a boy once,Walking through a farmland in Calicut,A farm that could have been...
by Naseef Ahammed | May 16, 2021 | Poetry
War engulfs the land of the Philistines,A land under duress, distress and destruction,Both sides fighting for the sake of their ancestorsAnd their homeland, the promised land, Canaan. The world fears picking sides,For it is a fight, a clash, or simply too...
by Naseef Ahammed | Mar 28, 2021 | Poetry
Gratitude, ripples and waves of it,Stem from the depth of my heartTo the tip of my tongueFor the grief and empathy that you disseminate,For Uyghurs, my people. Ineptitude, the void it lives inLies deep in the soulOf my people who stand byAnd watch the tyranny as it...
