Poetry
I close my eyes
A poem
June 25, 1999
The Iranian
A poem by Nagmeh Shariat-Madar, a second-generation Iranian-American,
currently a sophomore at a high school in Michigan.
I close my eyes
from the evil stares
the scandalous glares
the stupid dares
from the flip-up knives
the black-and-blue-eyed wives
the misguided lives
and I close my eyes
to hide the guns
of the kids just having fun
the ones who
kill
and
run
I close them tight
to block the sight
of futile hate
we try to mitigate
while intellectuals contemplate
on how to alleviate
and adults find new ways to berate
but still motivate
but I close my eyes
to politicians' lies
the ones with unscrupulous minds
who forget about the other kinds
while they wine and dine
my eyes are closed
to the NATO bombs
fired in the early dawn
as screams are heard
between yawns
so I close my eyes
so I need not sit and watch
as we create a bloody blotch
on history's page
filled with violence and rage
like animals trapped in a cage
and such
and we still aren't doing much
so I keep them shut.
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