AMNA SHAMIM

AMNA SHAMIM

BLACK WHITE AND YELLOW

In the sea of womb

Everything gets defined

If there are friends

Can there also be fiend?

Out into the world with light

Why is everyone so blind

White and yellow have less pain

And the tanned gets pined

Love is hated so hard

That it falls on the hind

Only because one is black

Or because one cannot find

The whiteness in divine

IN THE VICINITY

In the college vicinity

Two shots are fired

One hits the human body

The other transpires

To the world of hatred immense

Where lies the grievance

Of being born in a unique way

To be armed with a soliloquy

And please the never-pleasing minds

The armed leaves the firmament

Without the thirst being quenched

And tries to test the allies

Gathers and uses them to fly

Away the love stored

In the heart’s galore

And instill in it a machine

devoid of emotions and full of pain

to inflict others with the same

The world needs real hearts

that feel and sigh, Alas

and join hands to erode

the years-old epoch.

RACIAL IDENTITY

Carrying your race and colour

To a world unknown

Gets you caught up in a plethora

Of honeycomb

Wishing to be and acting like them

You move out of your cubbyhole

Reaching to the land of dreams

Where light-cum-lightening trolls

You are caught unaware

By the dangers lying ahead

Slowly it pulls you inside the quick sand

Knowing now who you are

It becomes difficult for you to bear

Your identity holds you responsible

For anything you do or anything you hear

You must now care

You must now care

Dr. Amna Shamim

Lucknow, India