Invisible Threads : English Poem by Ali Rasheed

 

Have you ever noticed

The birds imprisoned in cages

Huge cages, set on roofs

Their life is not beyond the bars

Yet, they are sometimes let go for a flight

But are always bounded to the cage

By some invisible threads

 

Have you ever noticed the scientists

Always, trying to transcend

The barriers of Space and time

They go to distant stars

They go deep in the oceans

Yet they are always bounded to return

By some invisible threads

 

Have you our noticed the little boys

Prisoned in their little houses

Prisoned by depression and aggression

Forced by tyrants to give up their share of life

They go out but find themselves in a maze

Feeling odd they hang themselves from the roof

By some invisible threads

 

Have you ever noticed the men

Bounded by their school of thoughts

Thoughts of race, class and creed

Prisoned in their cultural ghettos

Hating everyone outside their narrow world

They have knitted these boundaries themselves

By some invisible threads

 

Have you ever noticed yourself

Seeing like a statue of stone

Everything going wrong

Dying for love, but hiding the truth

Dying in your comfort zone

Bounded to intrusion and passivity

By some invisible threads

 

 

Have you ever noticed the time

It’s time to blur the boundaries

It’s time to use our wings

And fly away from designated circles

It’s time to attain simplicity and submission

It’s time to use our talons and get refuge

By some invisible threads