Just because the headlines dont say

Just because the headlines don’t say,
The media is wrong

Or that insatiable and ravenous
Don’t mean gluttony but National Pride

Doesn't mean you don’t understand
That things are not always as they say

Bags n Boxes

Ask, a preacher once told me when I was little
Ask for whatever you want
Ask God He will listen.

I was confused because I didn't know
how to ask for what I wanted
I had never heard anyone need what I needed

I asked a girl, a friend and she said
ask for gifts for things from shops
Gifts in boxes, in bags

But I did not want a gift that could be packed
and broken or stolen or taken for granted
a gift made by a someone, human just like me.

I needed special somethings that no one had
that no one wanted and no one could take away
boxes and bags can never hold what no other can have

I get everything I ever wish without delay
Gifts not from the God of the Preacher
but a baffling God who sends even as I am asking

I wish for ingots of peace
of laughter in friendship and
and quietness in my mind

Gifts in bags and boxes can be re-gifted or returned
Returned like we are to God, resting in Bags and Boxes
put away where no one ever can touch us

When I return I'll leave no jumble,
no clutter to bag and box,
I lived free outside the bags and boxes.

By: Tasnim Jivaji