Salman Rushdie

"A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and to stop it from going to sleep."

Salman Rushdie

A Naive Request

A Naive Request

You had said on the day you left
I was not dead
I had life to live.
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What you call life to live
I call it road to nowhere
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I needed you and a distance of mile
To keep on walking the road
Because we ate differently, wore differently
And loved our very own ways so.
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Comfortable enough was the knot
But you didn't untie but cut
So you must know
Each day how badly I get hurt.
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What you and life together did to me was worse
What I alone did to my life was even terrible
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It is a matter I pride
That I didn't at all harm you
And it is why I am shameful
I didn't at all help you
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Years equaled to naught
Roads led to naught
Was not I dead the day you left?
Answer before my funeral do not!

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