Universal Family

Poem By: Afzal Shauq Edited By: Jessica R ____ Tell me, am I alone? If having American Alley Boling beside like my true Muse teaching me, guiding me caring me, loving me and making me a global man by spreading my poetry around the world under the name of “Twist of Fates” while doing my novel into English too _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Liuli from Bexi China beside who has made my voice spread around the Chinese world by the translation of my poetry under the name “Ming Yun De Zhuan Zhe” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Andreea Sarcani of Romania beside who is visualizing my ideas by making the title covers of my books in her gorgeous art like the title covers of “Bridging The Gaps” and “Ming Yun De Zhuan Zhe” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Nazish Zafar from Islamabad beside being a Urdu-based poetess friend who compiled the critiques of world class writers/poets and readers in the book “ Bridging The Gaps” and she once added this poem to me… “wither you flee? the wandering soul! captive of the unseen! you wish to unlock the heart within you and those of all you can reach the cells of scary night and let all stars fly away in search of the unknown You! ! who has trampled the strangest of lands and seas under your feet look for your own face unable to find tear deprived shed dreams in speechless agony” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Haseena Gul from Kaka Saib beside as a Pashto poetess friend who has critiqued my all books under the name “Afzal… Afzal Sahuq” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Benita Premchand from Malaysia beside being my literary friend who has spread my poetry in Malay readers and Malay institutions of her country and writes on my birthday to me in poem… “But the distance from you grows All that my heart ever knows Hunger for your kiss Longing for your touch Beautiful be Nita of my soul Filling all my nights Haunting all my days” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Melissa Lundeen from USA beside eternal sweet friend poetess who wrote many poems and essays on my poetry and prevailing my ideas onward to her friends around and adds in poem to me frequently as… “I uncap my pen to you Afzal the only way I know how with this impromptu poem you are a sunburst off the largest star man has known and with but your words you can not imagine the subsequent heat that resonates in the very soul…” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Ruth Lovejoy again from USA beside who being my sincere family friend sending me the birthday wish firstly and kind to me enough adding the following words in poem… “I hope peace comes to your side of the world very soon that all will live in unity and harmony That this birthday this year brings all you would have of it And of course, many many more, in the years to follow...” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Jessica R from USA beside who likes my poetry, who keeps in touch like my tiny sweet teacher and supports my love based peace to let the world know about humanity. As she talks sweet, writes reality and she is believes that faith on reality is the only solution to make the world in peace… And she says about me, “Oh that the whole world would wonder at your words as I. If only, all humanity could see what we see and change the course of history so we could show future generations the peace that comes from the soul.” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Maryam Mohammadeoun from Iran beside who likes my poetry and sends sweet poems to make me energized with such type of sweet poems… “Maybe my love become a ship I get on it and pass seas safe and sound I don’t know the way you are navigator your gray hair is sign of years that you love everything...” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Zenny Disuja from India beside who appreciates and pushes me towards success with sweet poems and submit with love as… “would the glory, peace and humanity ever replace.... the brutality in human world? Yes angels are always there to guide the detract human kind, he added..” _____ Tell me, am I alone? Having Shana Wirtz from Snohomish, WA beside who being my favorite poetess and her thoughts energize me for writing poems Above all she asks the reader worldwide in her poem… “May we all celebrate That, our dear Afzal, Has made it with us Through another year” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Stephanie Philbeck from US beside the sweet under eighteenth girl who’s the heart knocking poetess keeps in touch to me always and adds to me in her sweet poems wishes for my birthday… “Candid ”Inevitable, Lethargy, Morose, Novice, Obscure, Ostentatious, Precocious Prevaricate” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Katherine Reid of Canada beside who being a great poetess and sincere sweet friend mentions the following loving wishes in her poem on my birthday… ”on his birth a creation was born. an inspiration that stems from his soul. destined to write, sweet words of the creative. on his birth, a creation born” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Nick Anderson from Houston beside being a good and fair friend poet with much love adds to me on my birthday “Your dream will come true. If not in your lifetime, Then in a lifetime soon. Your wish will come true, Peace and love throughout the world” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Laura Maguire from Scotland beside who’s the sweet friend poetess with her rich and sweet poems writes in her way for me as… “For today of all days, stranger I have yet to meet, I wanted you to know that you should always remain hopeful - As I do on the day I was born, every year. Thanking life for giving me hope. I thank you for being hopeful Afzal” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having dear friend Nelson Iwejua from Amsterdam beside who always wishes to praise me as his master being elder and adds in his sweet poem to me… “You are the source of everlasting life, You hold the key to my life. As i woke up to behold the glory of the morning sun, Teach me to know the wonders of all your works” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Vilma Zaballero from Philippines beside being my dearest poetry fellow who respects me a lot and adds with friendly love these verses in poem for me as… “I met a friend, and I'm proud to say, that amongst so many he stands out to be, a special person, so full of compassion. And on this day, this very special day” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having sweet Ilyse Drost from USA beside who being a good poetess and artist always show her love in fair way and send sweet words to me… in her great poems as… “I am... the missing piece of your heart oh my beloved....! Whenever there are questions answered you take over the controls. Beauty's threat makes me the slave as I feel know” _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Breama Shaylee beside a beautiful and good poetess friend who has wished the following loving verses of poems to me on my birthday as… “As you say and many have been touched by 'A Friendly Smile is the best Weapon of War Let's defeat each other with it and Occupy the hearts to control the feelings of favoring our wishes [for peace' _____ Tell me, am I alone? If having Felicity Bostdrof of Texas beside being a good novelist and poetess friend from the core of heart support my peace dreaming ideas and gives me courage in her tributes as.. 'let's bridge up the gaps between hearts and be happy being cousins of Adam's family as my friend Afzal Shauq says' Tell me, am I alone? If having east in heart West in brain South in eyes North in vein _____ You think! ! If I’m proud to be a human wish to be a human look to be a human survive to be a human sleep to be a human dream to be a human _____ Above all if I’m still wrong to be an human? then tell me friends! how should I be? if yes, I’m right to be an human then let me enjoy my universal family and to share pain and joys with the children of Eve and Adam © Afzal Shauq