Sharik Currimbhoy Ebrahim

 

 

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​ You are the light   As the first ray of sun pierces through the curtains, and wake from nothingness, you are  born once again.  You’re the aperture though which the universe is looking at itself, while playing the great cosmic game. After all, it would be quite boring to be a universe with nothing to do. Might as well explode in a Big Bang and see what happens. And so, first there was Logos, the Word, the primordial Om, and because of that vibration, luckily, You happened. When you opened your eyes the universe looked at itself, and said, Let there be Light. One day you know, but no one really believes it deep inside, that they’ll sleep and never wake up. What does it feel like to fall asleep and never wake up? It’s one of those questions children ask themselves before they’re taught not to. Well, what does it feel like to wake up, never having gone to sleep.  That’s what birth is, after all. We suddenly woke up, through we had never fallen asleep.  We only know darkness, because we

Judgement at the Golden Shovel A Poem on The Pool Players By Sharik Currimbhoy Ebrahim Below we have the original poem “The Pool Players by Gwendolyn Brooks, followed by the poem “The Fool Players by Sharik Currimbhoy Ebrahim”  Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks  (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry  on May 1, 1950, for  Annie Allen , making her the first  African American  to receive a  Pulitzer Prize . One of her most celebrated poems is “The Pool Players” about the plight of black youth, led astray, and outcast.  The Fool Players by Sharik Currimbhoy Ebrahim  is inspired by the unfairness of the circumstances of the Pool Players. It is based on a conversation where the poet learns of a friend, who suffers domestic abuse in silence. However, unlike the Pool Players, the author alludes to the scales of justice be