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Saturday, 16 September 2023

Amin Kassam - Strangers Forever

Each of us 
is a passenger 
seated in one huge 
compartment 
going we do not know where 
all strangers 
thrown together by chance 
who travel without arriving; 
Who can read the whispers 
of your mind 
when they are hidden 
even from you? 

Though you open a window 
in the chambers of your heart 
though you strive to say 
what you feel 
and in striving reach
      a state of understanding 
there is still one part 
one small part 
that remains your own 
one part 
that neither I nor anyone else 
will ever penetrate. 
       Forever strangers.

Amin Kassam (born 1948) Kenya
Source: A6 Hardcover

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