الأربعاء، 25 ديسمبر 2019

Charlatan


You can't capture me
You can't trick me
You can't fracture me
You can't wreck me
I emerge from the shadows
Wearing a mask
I flirt with the sun and
In its reign I bask
I'm a renegade : a river
Grown fish,
Sliding up the
Waterfall towards
The sea
My truths are laced with lies
You can't read my eyes
Every nonchalant confession
Is a wish.


الثلاثاء، 17 ديسمبر 2019

The Night Was Ours


"The night is ours."

Yes, I missed you, so much I woke up
With a pang of pain in my side, felt
Like watching the roses I got for my
Birthday quietly wither by the window side

I must have smothered them with water.

It is snowing outside and I'm yet again
Thinking of a man I used to know in a
City where I don't know anyone.

Are you, perhaps, thinking of me, at this hour
On a different cloud in this realm of somnolent
Wakefulness ?

I want to rewind to the moment we
Were just starting to take off each
Other's masks and we were too caught
Up in our hopefulness that we thought
We could handle the ugly underneath.

You thought you could contain me,
Drop after drop through the cracks
In the ceiling
Drop after drop I filled you up to
The brim and
Smothered you too,
Perhaps water is meant to flow and
Never to be kept.
When I turned my back on you, the
Flowers in my chest were dead
Long ago
Your last call was a knock on my door
Your apology was a tactful farewell
Carefully brushed, powdered
Lead on its eyes
Lowered down to the depths, slowly
Your apology didn't have much time
To lay out the words,
It was packing when it passed away.

Why are you like that ?

All I wanted was to have the night
For ourselves, whispering away our
Mutual loneliness, you shouldn't have
Stayed so still, letting me gather myself
Within you, until
You couldn't breath anymore,
You shouldn't have stood watching, as
This mess was too beautiful to untangle
You shouldn't be unmasking people, if you
Are going to run away from
The truth,

You fool, let me go
This is my last flower,
From me to you.





الأربعاء، 4 ديسمبر 2019

Firefly

20.12.18


What is it called when
Someone fits in the spaces
Between your thoughts the
Way cement holds all the blocks
Together as it sits in
Between ?
Perhaps I was chasing after the sitting sun
With all its blinding glory
When the moon shined so kindly upon my face
Perhaps the key was never in finding
A person that mirrors your every flaw
If feels like sipping on poetry until
It flows and suffocates you
Bane if you jump, bane if you stood
Watching.
We are nothing alike except that
Deep down we were both made of equal parts
Phoenix bones and mush
Someone liked to call this the law of attraction but
I'm a man of science and these are too casuistic for me to count on
I never know how well you adapt yourself to my absence I just love
How the songs I send you blend in with your playlist
When we cruise

Quietness

Reigned over my world, brand new like a child's perception
My love, I'm not the type that
Declares their weaknesses, but
When you said that you wished to miss your flight
God knows I felt it in my bones
How much I missed you already
How wrong yet right it all felt, how reckless and
Natural it all seemed
I miss you still, And it scares me
That I woke up with this tingling need
Like a disease from the dark ages, strange
How I forget all this noise when I'm
With you,
I understand why they wrote that
Love could kill you
Why the firefly hurries to its grand
Death with
Such joy.





Bamboo



Do not try to bend me
To your will,
I only bow to
Lashe back,
I'm a bamboo palm, sad, still
While dancing
Empty and still from
The inside, chancing on
Moments of wake and echoing
Laughter of the soul,
Prone to breaking half way as
I sway to the rhythm of folk
Blues.