Hello life!
What have you seen?
How have you been?
Has time, in its transience, kept you keen?
Have you asked it its reason for being?
Have you asked destiny why it’s fleeing?
Have you asked faith why it’s redeeming?
Life, I wish you could respond,
My questions are many and correspond
To all that happens that only seems morbid.
News and social media, all expound on
All that is negative: violence, death, con,
Racism, segregation, depravity, and poison.
All that pessimism holds no importance
To our health and emotional stability, whose significance
Vis a vis a world that’s dominated by impudence.
Alter, change, deviate from all that’s the same,
Be ‘you’, unique, strong, and don’t play their game,
Play yours, turn it into a burning flame.
©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
Author of Perfectly Flawed, poetry for change
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Poetry for Change 