Oh God, Give Twist To Life's Drama
To get rid of your monotony, Dear God,
You wrote a play.
But Your characters forgot their lines,
and mere noise comes from the stage.
While Darkness pervades across the land,
Your actors growl and snarl.
Goodness evaporates.
In disgust, You behold humans’ phony sanctimony,
savoring the stench of rotting flesh.
The wolf chasing the old elk,
boasts about hunts of death.
I see You weeping at Your clowns
Your script leaks, dripping barren circles of ash.
Oh God, give this play a twist.
Come, immerse yourself in life’s drama.
Repair what our shrieking souls have done,
haunted by a loss of purpose.
Lists of empty words scrawled across loose-leaf notebooks
We creep around Your window,
vomiting filth on your beautiful world.
Change this absurd play.
Tears and shame fill our eyes.
Broken hearts.
Shattered souls.
What can be more befitting a human?
In Your galaxies of love and wonder,
don’t search for lost human soul.
Oh God, reveal a new Act,
Or, draw the curtain.
Copyright © Muhammad Nasrullah Khan | Year Posted 2022
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