Monuments

By Azmi Alam

Was it not enough

To have taken birth a human?

To have had endured the embarrassing

Feat of being human.

Was it necessary

To have left relics behind, standing tall?

Attesting to your inane humanness,

Your preposterous existence

Was it not plenty

To have had a lifetime of futility?

Why must you have encased

Yourself within mere human existence

Accessorizing finite forever with minisculinity.

By Azmi Alam