Why is it cats always wanna test you?
What primevil hormone tells them, ‘I must best you’?
From the right and the left they come,
They let up not ’til their job be done.
But I am no triffle, no game of jest,
So when you come, you have need come with your best.
I will throw them up with lightning, cast them down with thunder;
As to how they lost, off they go to ponder.
Over mountains high and valley filled with dew, it is as it’s always been, when cats come to test you.
by Marqas
Marc has an extensive background as an educator, having taught such diverse subjects as ESL, Arabic, and Islamic studies in both the Detroit area and now in Philadelphia. In 2008, he receive his certificate [ijāzah] in the rules of delivering the Friday sermon [ahkām al-Khutbah] from Imam Anwar Muhaimin of the Quba Institute. Marc now works as a public speaker and khatib in the greater Philadelphia area and many points East and West.
Now, I like that! Especially these lines:
“But I am no triffle, no game of jest,
So when you come, you have need come with your best.”
Right on! Nice flow sound in the poem. I like the attitude and truth within it too.
Wa Salaam
Salaams and thanks.
I wrote this after a friend and I went to play a pick-up game up basketball and we played against this group of guys who were all hot air. They were big talk until the ball started bouncing. So I wrote them a little poem! Thanks.