O! YESTERDAY
Packaged and stored in the a corner of my mind is yesterday, “what was”.My most treasured moments are my childhood, even though I’m grown andflown millions of miles from home, I reminisce and long for those days. Ihang on to the hinges of the past. Yesterday will never again be theway I painted it in […]
Title Hunter
You are meant for neither land nor heavenPlease recall God the moment you will start feeling lost with theMonsters, when the evil monster will start hurting you, pleaseRecall the rememberance of God when the police start torturingThe culprit in the lock-ups, if an innocent is being treated as aCulprit and he is further tortured ruthlessly […]
Work
Okay, Okay, I know what you will say I am too tired and weary at the end of the day But suppose you were to look at it this way If I don’t work, how will I get payed? Alright, Alright, but before you sigh Think of all that your paycheck can buy Yes, I […]
Jamaica Bawling
Jamaica from distant shores I can hear youBawling…. so loud snow fell in summerYour wailing sadness, I taste your tears From so far, your belly burning, I feel itOh! what happened, what mourning retched doomBecome your soulLike no sadness I’ve knownLike no other……….you moanMy Jamaica, my Jamaica, O my JamaicaHow can I bring comfort Tell […]
Militancy In The Pursuit Of Freedom
Militancy not passiveness Will set the people free It is known to every Oppress That has proclaimed liberty Militancy not passiveness A difference you will see One stands for prompt action The other you sing, "we shall overcome" Militancy not passiveness Then captives will be free From savage and oppression rule To justice and equality […]
A Love Letter to Jamaica
For a week or two we’ll fall in love againI will bathe in your richesMake passionate love to your sunshineDetoxify my soul and thaw my bonesI will be home, Jamaica, for yet a little whileTo be impregnated again with a permanent smileYour clean breath on my face, rejuvenates my every cellFor one more year, until […]
This World Or That World
Now let it be this world or that worldWhy should I pray to dieWhy should I wish to liveNow let it be this world or that worldNow who would wish to live in the world Copyright 2003 Shakir Nizam Khan
My Beloved
Today I stand beside you and declareTo family and friends that you areMy BelovedYou are the one my heart lovesYou are the one He chose for meWhen you walked into my lifeAll the shadows fled awayAnd the sunlight flooded in Your kisses are sweeter than jackfruitSofter than ripe mangoesYour arms are a shelter from the […]
SONJI
With oriental eyes and a Jamaican smilespeaks like a Londonerbut she is much more.There is a smileit comes from inside.She plays with your hand and the skin is fresh.You caress her foot and that’s enough.She lives inside me nowSomeday we should live togetherShe worried about colourbut we are all out of Africa!Does soul have a […]
The Picture
All I got is a pictureJamaican smileJamaican childrenOne bigger, one smaller.A Jamaican motherTwo Jamaican daughtersSmiles as good as her’s can beSitting still, posing happyDisneyland in France.How close to WoolwichHow far from Jamaica land of birth. All I got is a pictureIt came once by mailWhen all was wellAnd it stays with meIt gave me lifeIt […]