BREATHE

By Shahnaz Hassan

O! “Dead soul” of mine, I breathe not to live but to leave.

I am tired of these fake faces, fake love, and untrue awareness.

Life looks like an infinite black hole,

with so many masked faces around,

every individual play two games at the same time.

The life of an individual is like a cell phone with two sims.

Use both at the same time, or if one doesn’t work,

use the other one.

Ha! people around, we call “humans”,

“humans” with no humanity, no humbleness, and no shame visible in their eyes.

The atmosphere has changed – global warming,

And our lifestyles have changed into “global warning”.

Naive and innocent people are just breathing to leave and not to live.

By Shahnaz Hassan