Why Amman? ? <br />You compel me to have contradictory <br />Feelings for you why, <br />Why my Amman, <br />Why do I love you <br />And fear you <br />In the same time? <br />Why do I long to see <br />You and once I reach <br />Your semi green valleys and mountains, <br />I feel so confused? ! <br /> <br />Why my dear city <br />You insist to kill my soul? <br />Is it because the memories <br />Of my happy and adventurous <br />Youth is buried in your soil, <br />Or because my last love <br />Has become part of your dust? <br />You were once our meeting point <br />But you refused to open your arms <br />Or heart <br />For us and we were lost in the Wilderness. <br /> <br />Why Amman you look <br />Like a prison of walls <br />To me now? <br />While once you were my gate <br />To happiness and freedom, <br /> <br />Why materialistic ways of living <br />Is killing your people who once <br />Looked so intellectual and liberal <br />Why is it killing them <br />As jealousy killed my best friends <br />Who were living on your land <br />Who changed just like you <br />with the passage of time; <br /> With the years <br />Of absence? ! <br /> <br />Where are your green sceneries, <br />Where have they disappeared, <br />Why could the hand of time <br />Change you to a sterile land, <br />Why my first beloved city <br />After my homeland, <br />Why my wonderful home <br />You put an end <br />To all of my dreams and hopes <br />Of whatever is beautiful <br />Of whatever charmed <br /> My heart and MIND? ? ? ? ! ! !<br /><br />nadia abduljabbar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/amman-my-unrequited-love/
