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Salam. I Am Sorry for Yesterday

by Akif Kichloo

If I say I am sorry for yesterday, which yesterday 
am I referring to. Anxiety mimes hysteria, hysteria 
mimes past tragedies, and you become a ghost. 
A sick imposter. Hiding. Scaring everybody back 
to innocence. Can you call it trauma if you can’t 
show the scars? You learn to say your Namaste’s, 
fold your hands in gratitude, write your thank you’s 
with sparkling brilliance, and apologize. Repeatedly 
apologize. 
 
Salam. 
I am sorry for yesterday. 
Allah Hafiz. 
 
When Prophet Mohammad was kicked out of Mecca, 
he made a kingdom on its outskirts, called it al-Madīnah, 
called it the city, called it home. My mother pushed me out 
at 10:30 p.m., on a hot, humid, summer day, on a government 
paid hospital bed, and she swears I didn’t stop crying for two full 
days. It was horrifying. Sometimes what is too much for 
someone looks small. A mother carries a crying child, an ant 
carries a grain of sugar. A child carries love. 
 
Salam.
 
Every time a chromosome replicates, some genes are lost 
at its tail. That’s how we age. When I was five all the boys 
in my class were first hooked to sugar, then to attaboy’s from 
their dads. Yesterday, when I asked my Dad for forgiveness, 
I saw an attaboy in his hands. 
 
Papa, I am sorry for yesterday. 
 
How do you carry an invisible weight. How do you live standing
on the edge of a blade.  God created earth in 6 days and had to rest on 
the 7th. The last time I had a good night's sleep was when my 
mother carried me tied to her back. 
What else is there to remember. 
 
Allah Hafiz. 

Biography

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Akif Kichloo is a poet of Indian origin currently alternating residence between Saginaw, Michigan (USA) and Kashmir, J & K (India). With a bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery, he has been eating shoelaces for the past year because he gave up everything to write poetry. Currently signed with Andrews Mcmeel Publishing for his book of poems Falling Through Love (Fall 2019).

Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Tumblr/Pinterest : @akifkichloo 
http://akifkichloo.com/
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