The © Muhammad Haque Political Poetry UPDATED texts of The Greed of Eid

The © Muhammad Haque Political Poetry
UPDATED texts of

The Greed of Eid
This theme conceived of during 1987-1993
In London E1 1HE UK.
THIESE texts are being written
At 1010 GMT London
Sunday 19 August 2012 AD
Eid Al Fitr
01 Shawaal 1433 AH
THIS post at 1605 Hrs GMT 19 August 2012
Eid should be shared
The joys of Eid
Spread across the population
Regardless of status in faith
Just as a child
Neglected and starved
Is brought back to ordinary
Breath and life
On being found food
And fed
The sight of such a state
Of such a child
Is beyond words
Universally joyous.
Have you fed such a child this Eid?
Have you enquired after the woman?
Hidden in indescribable misery
Lacking food
Even clothing
Unknown even to these who once knew her
And to others who even once admired her
Now reduced to multiplicity of denial
Deprivation
Where is she?
You have no idea?
Indeed!
So what Eid are you celebrating today?
You say that you pray to God
For the privilege of allowing you
The ability to observe the
Holy month of Ramadan
That ended yesterday
That is your privilege and your
Right in faith to do
But did it occur to you
That God
Would rather that
You ADDED some real concern for
Some really deprived neighbours
Who are your neighbours?
You don’t know your neighbours?
And you spent almost the whole month
Of Ramadaan asking for God’s forgivingness
And probably hoping that you were
Getting the forgiveness.
You need to stop being so lazily hopeful.
Look around
And you will see that
In your neighbourhood
There are some faces
That is not smiling.
In fact those faces
Could not put on any expression
That could amount to a smile
Even if they were told to smile
The souls whose faces those are
Are violated souls
Violated the whole year round
[To be completed]