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The Most Star-Crossed of Lovers – ‘Poem Postmarked For the Middle East’

Poet Usman Hameedi reads one of the most breathtaking love poems about one of the most forbidden loves in modern day.

An excerpt:

Forbidden Commandments.
While Abraham’s children fought bloody,
we parted red seas,
exodus to smooth lands of milk and honey.
Our Bodies intertwined like messages in Torah and Quran.
Beneath the starry splatter paint masterpiece of God,
I held her answered prayers thankful.

Our moaning drowned out the war cries,
harsh Hebrew and Arabic
Our orgasms were our resistance
When your lover is the target
political terms have their face,
bullets aimed at their skull.

For the full text of this breathtaking poem, visit UpWorthy.

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