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Exclusive Poems to Sada-e-Watan by Dr. Farah Adeeb of Perth
Dr Farah Adeeb is an
expatriate from Lahore. She studied her PhD at the University of Auckland before
taking on a position with the Environment Protection Authority in South
Australia. She is now a senior air quality manager with the equivalent
organisation in Western Australia. She is also the branch president for Clean
Air Society for Australia and New Zealand.
Farah is also a freelance writer and these poems are therefore reflective of the
thoughts and feelings of many within the immigrant population within Australia.
WAITING
Shining stars in your eyes
a memory from the past
With hope in your voice
You did say will you come back?
Will you wait for me I asked
Till the day I die you said
Till the day I cannot see this world
Shining stars in your eyes
I dreamed about them
all the way on the journey
days were long and nights were dark
the wait has gone longer and longer
Life got on the way
and the bright stars have grown dim.
Dr
Farah Adeeb (Perth)
Where do I belong?
Where do I belong?
Where have I come from?
Identity, a sense of belonging,
why there is no answer?
Like the moon covered by clouds,
grey clouds, misty mornings,
why do I not have an identity?
Where have you come from? you asked,
you are not a native of this land.
Oh well, you guess it. I leave it to you,
am I Asian, Spanish, Mexican...
divided like a stream into two cultures,
which values do I need to adopt,
which values do I need to leave out?
A question of identity ― the crisis of belonging
how long do I need to live in a place ― I ask myself
to get an identity ― a sense of belonging?
When will it rain and then will the sky be clear again?
And the moon will be without clouds,
and is it then I will have identity?
Dr. Farah Adeeb (Perth)
