I no longer talk about- a poem by Dr Javed Ahmed

I no longer talk about

How life stops gazing
at tomorrow,
how life freezes dreams
in our daily drudgery.

I no longer talk about
an endless road,
                         the ruins

of a pining nation,
                           the silence
of our song.

I whisper my poverties
in the ears of my solitude.

I illuminate my cave
with the light of my dreams.

(The Galway Review-July 2021- Ireland)