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Deaf, dumb and blind

My eyes have perfect sight

Yet I am blind.

My ears hear every sound bite

Yet I am deaf.

My speech is eloquent under the stage light

Yet I am dumb.

For it is not my eyes that could not see

But my heart, with its disease

I turn away from the poor’s plea

I shut my ears even when they screamed, “PLEASE

HELP

US!”

I’m dumb because with every knowledge that I gained

The poison of arrogance flows through my vein

And my diseased heart couldn’t help but to pump

Churn my body into a toxic waste dump.

My sick heart,

It is sealed tight.

With shroud of ignorance

That chases light.

Until one day. When the heart could take no more.

Before it collapsed, drop dead to the floor.

With sharp intakes, and a final wheeze

The heart whispers, “Oh Allah, please

help

me. “

“Have they, then, never journeyed about the earth, letting their hearts gain wisdom, and causing their ears to hear? Yet, verily, it is not their eyes that have become blind - but blind have become the hearts that are in their breasts!” Surah Al-Hajj, verse 46

 - Lailatulzahrah

This is what I'm feeling right now. And so what better than to transcribe my feelings into thoughts and translate them into words. 

Why is my pen name Lailatulzahrah? 

Because I want to be the Night Flower. Which blooms and emits sweet fragrance even in the darkest hour.