Leaving The Market
Unequally yoked, but equally tied to the fate of their farming owners
A horse and donkey step together, bonded as patient companions
Leaving the market with an empty cart, empty bellies and empty handed
A pair of waterbuffalos tied to the rear, starving and shuffling side by side
Their fates to the same horse and donkey are tied and the sky is as empty as their bellies
The road is as dusty and dry as their eyes, bleak as the future and bleak as behind
From where they are coming, to where they are going, there is far too much in common
© Aisha Abdelhamid 2014
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