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21/06/2015
THE F1RST FAST
ON RAMADHAN 2015

 
 
 
I’ve opened my first fast.

My world is round again.

My stomach balloons,

But gone the pain

That gnawed within.

I have broken the three-meal chain.

I can feel my hunger, thirst,

My cravings for coffee wane.

 

I have curbed a disobedient  

Appetite, forcing it to rein

In ‘til I recover my lost piety.

Fasting is enjoined on us to re-train

Our bodies, thoughts, our minds.  

We are exhorted to abstain

from everything impure.  

If only fasting, though, could remain

A one-off thing, not this testing

Thirty-day refrain.

 

(C) F.S. AIJAZUDDIN

19 June 2015 

 
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