Sonnet 9: What Would You Rather Be

Be an honest sinner or a perfect fool? A fearful worried repenter? or a silent breaker of rules? And verily all sons of Adam are sinners The best of them are those who repent God created everyone imperfect The rules of His creation were for no man bent When a lie is told, an odor will derive Angels stay far from this stench that they hate 70 fornication sins are equivalent to one lie Untruthfulness has an awful fate The beauty of Islam is that hope for change persists Therefore turn and repent for perfection on this dunya does not exist Wardah Ahmed 2016