Suffering

Suffering              by Sami Khalil

I pause to catch glimpses of passing clouds

Inching across Gentian skies and pink

Over rubble and dust, rambling white shrouds

Where aching sounds and lives lost in a blink.

 

I cause my wandering mind to meander

Skipping shadows casted and dreamy wings

Where blades of grass do sway and hopes clamber

Sounds of thunder and drifted lightening slings.

 

I spy a flock of sheep tarried, stranded

Nowhere to run from the butcher at hand

With first harvest of souls and pride branded

Reaping his hate-filled face, yielding quicksand.

 

I rub my eyes in disbelief wondering

How to rehearse farewell songs to suffering.

Reviews

[emmajoygreen]

Can one ever rehearse farewell songs to suffering, Sami? Perhaps there is a way, a moment when kind thoughts and or prayers could at very least help. Sincere thought set in fine writing here.

[Sami Khalil]

OMG! So true and well said. I agree with you 💯. Small positive things, steps, prayers along with the goodwill,, intentions can help elevate sufferings, animosity, hatred, bloody history and do forth. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.

[emmajoygreen]

Recently heard someone say (during festivities too, ironically) that without war, 'pestilence' etc] would Mankind learn what sympathy or empathy means or - remain cocooned or oblivious outside Self. Been meaning to add that to your poem, so forgive this extra comment but perhaps is relevant or not.

[Sami Khalil]

So, death, destruction and mayhem in exchange for sympathy or empathy, that does not change the status quo, instead of taking active actions to bering just solutions...
Feeling sorry for someone is not going to change anything unless and until they change themselves, or we help them do that. Now, that is on an individual scale. On a large scale, we need more approaches. Long subject, but that is just my opinion.
Some difficult situations need an act of God, an act of governments, an act of collective people, an act of imposing solutions, an act of diplomacy, an act of Goodwill and so forth.
War mongers abound and they justify all the genocides that happen in the history as God-sanctioned.
I wonder if it was God(whom they blame for anything but themselves) and not those greedy leaders, companies, special interests that wanted to grab more land, resources, power, control, diversion from local problems, hate- filled campaigns and so forth.
Excellent subject!

[emmajoygreen]

Some comments make absolutely no sense, they are said to cause controversy in order to win an argument that they began, Sami I agree with you and have for years over attitudes alluding to more than that one selfish being who things the world revolves around them.

'War mongers abound and they justify all the genocides that happen in the history as God-sanctioned.' We are allowed to choose faith outside ourselves bug must also take the blame for what goes wrong in our lives with faith.. any kind of faith, surely. Perhaps this could become a debate, Sami - for later in the year when we have longer days to consider such xomplexities! :)

[Sami Khalil]

I think it is the opposite: Wars have shown total lack of sympathy or empathy from both warring side; they are filled with hate, revenge and total disregard to human life. Enemies belittle each other, call each other wicked names to justify wars. Plus the root causes of wars are deep rooted in many things.
Power, greed, control, injustice, subjugation, hate, extremism in religion and ideology, disrespect to others and so forth. Long subject.

[Sami Khalil]

Sorry: my last comments were in continuation of my original statements, not your response. Thx!

[emmajoygreen]

That is the reason why I offered the remark, Sami, NOT because |I agreed with it.

[Sami Khalil]

I understand.
Have a Happy New year.

[emmajoygreen]

Good! Thank you, am trying to do so, Sami. :)

[Arundass TP]

Nice poem. Sufferings are experiences.

[Sami Khalil]

Thank you kindly.

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Sami… a precious Ode to the suffering… clouds of Mercy where Innocence becomes buried in the crevices of immortality. Amen… Pat

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! I love your take and wisdom on this poem; you have summed it up marvelously. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.