Are We Pure

By Safa Mahmood

We drank the blessed water,

we swallowed words of a temper hotter,

we locked our tongue between our teeth,

we kept our darkness underneath,

we stomached the shove,

we lost our love, we lost our love.

Now are we pure?

Now is our place in Heaven secure?

We let it happen, we let it bleed,

we chose fatalism over greed,

we bargained till the break of day,

we sinners watched ourselves decay,

we saw our neighbors climb above,

we however lost our love, we lost our love.

Now are we pure?

Now is our place in Heaven secure?

We draped our heads with shame,

we covered the faces of what we became,

we rejoiced at sickness as another chance,

we found richness in poor circumstance,

we stayed soft when times were tough,

we even lost our love, we lost our love.

Now are we pure?

Now is our place in Heaven secure?

By Safa Mahmood