Marabi Amfaal Hydara (The Humanitarian Poet)

Marabi Amfaal Hydara is a young Gambian writer and poet, who is ambitious, motivated and ready to enlightening people through writing and community development. He is poet and has written more than 100 poems on different areas of life. He dreams of a day where in all we do in this world, we give priority ForEveryChild to attain an education, to live their lives to their full potential and to become the best they can ever be! #GambianWriter #GambianWriters #GambianPoet #WritersInTheGambia

Friday, July 3, 2020

SHE IS A SCAMMER

She is a liar, She is a liar,

She is a big lair,

She is a big big lair...

Pretending to be happy,

Like everything is as she desired,

But if you can open her up,

You will see burning inside her despair's pyre,

She is a lair, she is a lair....

Always keeps a smile on her face,

But observe for some time and you can trace,

From the clinching of the teeth,

In her soul there is suppressed a ball of fire,

She is a lair, she is a lair....

Moving effortlessly through the days,

Like she never gets tired,

But if you can read her mind,

All the time she keeps on thinking of time to retire,

She is a lair, she is a lair....

Walks there on the way,

Looks at the things and shows no interest,

Like she needs nothing,

But in her heart she has a thousand desire,

She is a lair, she is a lair....

So don't you believe what you see,

She is not what she seems to be,

She is just pretending to you and me,

Everything is fair and nothing she aspires,

She is a lair, she is a lair....

©Marabi Amfaal Hydara

The Humanitarian Poet

Medicine For Healing

I see you looking at your children,

Wondering what their lives will be.

If you verify some answers

Then their future you might see.

Have you taught them to be truthful?

Have you taught them to be kind?

Have you given them the wisdom

Needed to be color blind?

Have you taught them to be caring

For those differently abled people some way?

Do you read to them at bedtime?

Have you taught them how to pray?

Have you taken time to tell them

What a miracle life is?

How to be aware of nature,

Share the beauty that it gives?

Have you taught them how important

It is to have respect for one another?

To be grateful, not be prideful

When good fortune you discover?

Do you let them know you love them

In a way that leaves no doubt,

So they know that is one thing

That they will never be without?

We like to think we've done our best.

Sometimes that's very true.

Can you say 'yes' to all my questions?

I will leave that up to you.

I hope your answer is affirmative,

For then I know that you will see

A future filled with happiness

Like it's supposed to be.

©Marabi Amfaal Hydara

The Humanitarian Poet

Don't Judge Me Wrong

Take time to know me,

And you will see

That I am nothing like what

You have heard spoken of me.

Give me a chance and

I will prove to you

That although I am not perfect,

I have a heart that is pure and true

Take time to know me;

Just give it a try.

You will see that we are not

That much different, you and I.

I make mistakes, don't you?

But if you judge me by mine, expect that you will be

Judged by yours too.

Take time to know me,

You have nothing to fear.

Unless you wish to hang on to What you have been told by your peers.

Just for a minute put yourself in my shoes.

How would you feel if someone Was going by the rumors

They have heard about you?

Take time to know me;

What have you got to lose,

Besides the so called friends

Who have got you confused?

I am not asking you to

Choose between me and them,

And if they really care about you, They will always be your friends.

Take time to know me is all I ask,

No great feat or extraordinary task.

Then if you don't like me,

It will be because of what you Have seen and heard for yourself

And not because of what you Have been told by someone else.

The Humanitarian Poet

Why Joke At Being Real?

She blew into my life

Like a sweet summer breeze,

Stole my heart in instant,

Made me weak in the knees...

She seemed so sincere

When she'd look in my eyes

And say the things i've waited

To hear my whole life.

I thought she was different...

I thought she was real.

I never thought i could feel

the way she made me feel.

I just don't understand why

She wasted the time

When there was nothing

To gain on her end or mine.

It was perfectly senseless...

Not one reason why.

She would just disappear

Without saying goodbye.

She had me floating on air,

then let me crash to the ground.

It's too much to wrap my mind around.

Why joke at being real?

No one wins in the end.

Someone always gets hurt

When the other pretends.

Why say all those things

When you don't mean a word?

It's mean and it's cruel

It's completely absurd.

Now i'm left here to wonder

What could've gone wrong,

Why just stopped calling,

Why she strung me along?

My thoughts, they consume me, Like a crop consumes rain.

Another sleepless night just Might driven me insane.

I toss and turn over again.

I can't help but feel like

I've lost my best friend.

But a friend would be honest, Wouldn't play with your heart.

A friend wouldn't lie to you

Right from the start.

A friend would still be

There come tomorrow

A friend would comfort,

Not cause you sorrow.

I wonder

if...whatever her reasons may be

That surely she knew

Her actions would hurt me?

And i wonder if from time to time

The thought of me might cross her mind?

Does she think my "angel" eyes

Filled with tears because she lied?

Does my memory haunt her in sleep?

For her it's probably not that deep.

I truly wish her all the best,

Hope she's okay and happiness...

Finds everything she's looking for...

Good health, true love and so much more.

I miss her, and it breaks my heart,

That it had to end

before it got to start.

©Marabi Amfaal Hydara

The Humanitarian Poet