Don't go and leave them
I could feel the pressures of my blood
Rocketing, like the shooting up
of the ill-fated space shuttle into space
And a moment later
Leaving behind
A thundering and deafening sounds
With blistering fireworks
Momentarily, conquered the skies of Cape Canaveral
My heart was pounding
As fast as the Modern Day Orient Express
Cutting into vast Europe heavenly Continent
That bloody morning was the dateline
To disembark to a new destiny
To redeem me for all the disfigured
Miscalculation and tormented life
I could ever have had
With the mother of three beloved children of mine
The moment I walk out of the door
Heading towards a new unblemished frontier
My steps becoming slower and dying
Like a ton of cements attached to it
The pictures of my children
Incessantly the youngest one
Were cultivating and
Galvanizing my helpless mind
I could no longer forward
It’s like, for a dramatic
And unexplained turnaround of event
My whole body
Was paralyzing and preventing me from moving
For a father
Who poured all his loves and affections
To his blissful and beloved children
Wouldn’t have the heart
To leave them though
A moment later
I grab my cell phone
And call “Hi dear, I’ll be back. I couldn’t do it”.
Deep down her heart
My wife replies, “I knew it, you’ll come back to us”.
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poem by Sulaiman Mohd Yusof
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