How Can I Hide My Sorrow?

How Can I Hide My Sorrow?

            By Farahnaz

I am an Afghan girl,

Tears in my eyes, pen in hand,

Writing from my heart.

That heart, full of sorrow,

Pain, grief, sores,

How can I hid my sorrow?

No one understands me

Or feels my sadness.

No one smoothes ointment on my wounds.

How can I hide the sorrow

That fills me,

When my heart is

Exploding

            Exploding

                        Exploding

Pabot, Susannah E., comp. The Sky Is a Nest of Swallows. First ed. Belleville, 2012.
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The Burqa

by Meena Y.

Navy blue, long and baggy

Top and bottom with different designs of flowers

Hanging outside the shop along with other white and green ones

Swinging in the cold wind of Kabul winter.

Swinging tiredly and wondering about the woman who would own it

Maybe the one who would wear it unwillingly

Cursing herself for being born a woman

Complaining about her inability to see or move freely.

Swinging right and left, the burqa remained wondering

Whose face would it hide?

Whose identity would it take?

Pabot, Susannah E., comp. The Sky Is a Nest of Swallows. First ed. Belleville, 2012.

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