One Heartfelt Poem by Dr Suleman Lazarus

 

Laments of an Immigrant Ashore

 

I screamed.
And I screamed.
I screamed again.
And again, I screamed.

And perhaps, for a long time, I screamed.

And perhaps, for a short time, I dreamed.

I do not know.
I do not know.

It must have been just a dream life.

If it is, oh Lord! An awakening life.

Why does none hear so many screams?
Why does numbness tear many dreams?

As the liquor of law numbed humanity into apathy, 

I fell into the abyss and screamed.

I screamed.
And I screamed.
I screamed again.
And again, I screamed.

Dr Suleman Lazarus is a poet and social scientist who obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. He merges poetry and autoethnographic research in his recent work entitled 'Demonstrating the Therapeutic Values of Poetry in Doctoral Research...," published in Methodological Innovations. One of his poems, 'Betrayal in Academia and a Black Demon from Ephesus', appeared in the Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice. He is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).