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| ***BIO*** Salman Shaheen is a committed anti-war campaigner and political activist.
Born in 1984, he is currently studying social and political sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has had poetry published in several small anthologies, magazines and e-zines, and has also written a number of articles for left-wing newspapers, websites and journals. Salman was a co-host, alongside Jon Snow, on the Channel 4 children's news series, First Edition, and also appeared as an extra in the recent film Vanity Fair - wearing a pink turban! Always a bit of a hippy, Salman enjoys spending his free time travelling to festivals, parties and protests. A firm believer that the pen truly is mightier than the sword, Salman writes to make a difference. For more poetry by Salman Shaheen, and others, please visit: http://www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk/counter/counter.htm If you have any comments or critique, please get in touch, I'd love to hear from you! salman_shaheen84@hotmail.com |
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| Earth’s Man |
| by Salman Shaheen |
| I own the trees so I cut them down,
To build my house on fields brown. I own the fields so I plough them dry, To plant my crops beneath the sky. I own the sky, I care not if life there withers, For yet I have my ancient rivers. I own the waters; I may poison them at will, And fish them barren, I have the forests still. But the last tree has fallen, just desert sand, A home without a garden, no beautiful land. The fields are barren, no crops will grow, Though my hunger grows, of that I know. And there is no air left to breathe, no breath left in me, The rivers run dry, for rain I make plea. Dying here, I see, I cannot own the place of my birth, It does not belong to me; I belong to the Earth. |
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| Oct. 2005 |
| 49 |