السبت، 12 ديسمبر 2020

Erobus

07.02.2020

My chaos gets strangely euphoric when
An E string starts to squeak. When she steps on
Dead leaves, she looks like an itch in her brain
Was relieved,
I don't ask many questions.
I just let her weigh me down like
An avid lover, stroke my hair as
I lay to sleep on her lap before she
Leaves at dawn, sometimes I think she's
An apparition.
My chaos gets a Tattoo on 
Her every birthday, parades naked in front of
The mirror like a Fitzgerald poem, her body
Full of scars left by strangers.
She thinks Capricorns are obtuse.
My chaos is unsullied, she hates the color black, says it is 
A glutton
She tries to be kind, never drops 
Her mirth while snearing, sometimes I feel
Like she's a manipulative psychopath, she
Reminds me of Sylvia Plath, her words all over the
Place when she's off, but they burn like poisoned
Needles when they hit home, and
I let a lot of dark innuendos slide because she allows
Me to hide from my troubles in human forms, see, 
I'm scared of these the most.
She is as enticing as the ocean, when she's
Not cross
Her airs are baby blue most of the time, and she suffocates
People by containing
Them, she hums while
She cooks my excuses.
My chaos thinks Dostoyevskian
Characters were based on her exes.
She doesn't like
Crowds, shrinks to the quietest
Corners when someone flicks on
The switch without a warning, she grunts when strangers 
Confess to past sins on the subway.
Wakes me up on restless nights, I hate it
When it's her time to speak and she
Never does.
My chaos smiles when she glances at
Someone else's Chaos
Like a child from the window of a passing
Car. She sat next to yours in grade school, love,
You just don't remember her because she
Was plain and kept to her day dreams, she remembers your
Dirty shoes, the dusty hairs on your neck
Your chaos, mi amor, grew to be a plunge pool
Vortices and doom and weird fishes,
A burying place for the drowning wishes,
Funny how folks curtain their darkness, while
You wear it over your skin, like a rain coat,
As you converse with your spiraling
Thoughts, bastard children of experiences past.
Your chaos stands out like a grave
In the meadow, it's drenched in Vantablack,
Swallowing colors and those born with a soft
Nature
Your chaos is hardened solid by the grimaces of pain
It gets conspicuously annoyed when it rains
It thinks Bukowski's characters were
Its past births, and it can't keep a lover longer than
A season
It thinks my chaos looks horrid without make up.
Follows it around with its eyes,
Your chaos has lewd thoughts, keeps its hands
Secured in its pockets so it wouldn't do harm
Says its shade of black stains worse than the rest.
Your chaos thinks everything is its fault,
Whispers in your ear, sometimes even I can hear,
That you have a habit of destroying people by
Loving them too
Hard. 
Except that you don't, you don't
Love anybody, not even you.
Your chaos bullies you into hiding
Within
It dips your cigarettes in honey and pats
You in the back, when you swallow
The right answer.
Your chaos is a great dancer, but thinks showing off
Is for small egos. It taught you how to trap
Women by listening to what makes them
Go quiet
It pierces my soul
To know that I can't fix you by
Loving you, even she shivers in guilt
That it thought it was the most
Chaotic of all, the wildest summer storm  
That ever brewed
In the west
And yet she nervously whispers in my ears,
 
Child, I wouldn't.






Pooja's Euology



16.02.2020

Empty quarters remind me of my own
Obsequiousness: a mote.
A firefly that got caught
In the ever growing labyrinth of causality,
A clot of matter that
Protects the shadows from the
Flare of the sun : usurper of the night.

There is so much space without,
So much noise within that squirms
To be released
And yet the safest place to hide one's
Blues is one's very skin.
I may be the universe to you,
But to these mountains I am but an echo
Of a forgotten sigh, and you could crumble the
Universe in my palms and it would
Still amount to a little more than
A missed note of a psalm.
Roll my name out of your tongue
Like you used to roll your
Apologies, when you've done wrong,
And pour me another cup of Darjeeling
My darling, as you unfold what
You just crumbled : does it matter if
You love me ?
Does it
Matter if I've loved you back,
In one of these infinite webs of
Possibilities, does it
Matter if we've both perished in each
Other's arms, does it matter if we've never
Met, and this poem never saw the light
Does it matter if we have forgotten
This moment, or we if we've skipped right to
The next ,never knowing what we've
Missed,
Would it make a difference if we've
Been stuck in a Mobius loop and never
Got to know what it's like
To get hurt ?




الخميس، 10 سبتمبر 2020

Izaya

Knowing is a plague.

Quite heavy on the soul
While it's meant to be light, my love, lighter
Than a snowdrop, lighter than the thoughts of
The unborn.

You'd think it a great feat, learning how
To cause tremors as you stomp with
Your feet, ripples as high
As mountains with a touch of your
Promise finger, and it's true, but what you

Don't know is that chaos begets chaos and

A peaceful mind is such
A waste of the gift of suffering,

Time has shrouded yours with enough scar tissue, hasn't it ?
And now you roam the waste lands like a wounded
Beast, looking for someone to love

You

Madder than the last toy you broke while trying

To fix.


Does it heal your
Knuckles when you deliver blow after blow

With the cruel innocence of a child?

Does it please you when you snap the twigs and
Smother the roots, bury the seeds of rancor
Among the weeds you left to run wild ?

Does it soothe your restlessness

When you scrape their last spec of
Dignity off your boots, when their face becomes

Darker than the hidden side of the

Moist star, as you browse your collection of records,


"With what truth shall i hurt you tonight, sweet ?"

You hum, fingers bustling

The kinder the song, the sharper it cuts :
Poetic savagery

Poor things, when did you learn to hurt

People thus ? 

They would
Bolt like the dwellers of the night at the flick
Of a light, because you

Stifle them, by knowing
You make love to
Their flaws and dance upon their
Nakedness, you make their darkness shrivel 

Under the scoff of mockery

You smash their
Heads into the mirror of vigil, you

Push them into the abyss that they walk

Around and never dare look at "

Doesn't it look pretty ?

Do you eye your reflection ?

Doesn't it feel warm ?

Doesn't it smell bottomless?

Doesn't it seem a bit lonely, here, 

Hold your
Breath, and delve


Doesn't it feel like home ?









الجمعة، 5 يونيو 2020

رسالة إلى عزرائيل


‏الموت لا يطرق النوافذ بعد
منتصف الليل كمحب جافل
نوائب الدهر لا تمهل المرء حتى
حلول الخريف
  و رسائل النعي لا تأخذ غفوة في
جيب النذير،
 يصطبح بها الغافل، تفوح منها رائحة
الفصول جميعا
الموت لا يسكن في آثار الحروب و
طيات الجوائح 
قد تلاعب أذنيك بعض
دندنة من ركن قصي
بعد أن تهدأ جلجلة المرح على مائدة العشاء.

الثلاثاء، 5 مايو 2020

Ginkgo



Feb 2019

The thing about keeping
The door ajar for someone's
Promised return
Is that it brings the breath of
Winter in the still of
The night,
Unwanted.
You left without a word
And I waited for you, hand
Calloused on the handle, until
I lost all the feeling in my vibrato
Fingers.
I thought,
One day you would make
Up your mind and
My heart wouldn't shiver anymore,
Unbolting and raising bars seemed
To me a lot harder than
Letting go.
Eons have passed and my heart
Aged well, Deserter, a Ginko tree
Abiding through the seasons
Shedding ache along with its
Dead leaves, standing bare
In the open.
Looks like the cold didn't
Agree with you, out there
Knocking on my windows
For a night's shelter
There are motels for that,
Beloved,
I changed the locks and I
Light fires in my heart(h)
Now.





الثلاثاء، 31 مارس 2020

End of The Fuxking World



Let's not watch the news

Lay your head on my chest, your
Favorite Spiritual playing on
The fake Gramophone.
This, too, shall pass, my love,
And We will bask in the sun light,
Soon
Live until we are old grumps 
Have hot chocolate 
While watching the sunset from
The back of your car, and 
I will whisper in your ear, that 
I love you, dearly. See, I
Have always Differed that confession until 
The moment was right :
The moment will never 
Be right,  one has to hold it
By the throat and make it
Surrender, my love, and 
While some things are better 
Left unsaid, others are 
Always best when they are 
Told in the 
Spur of the moment, this 
Moment is ours, and the 
Night is young, this moment 
Is ours, let no wild petals 
Rest 
On your tongue.



الثلاثاء، 17 مارس 2020

Slurpees


09.01.2019

And I followed the stranger in white rags
To the gateway of the dark place, he had
Disappeared into an ocean of faces by
The time I gathered my
Scattered thoughts and tied my laces
He must be living
Inside
That grand castle of loneliness stuck out
Like a grave in
A flower garden
I stood motionless, fist clinched,
Fingers hardened
On the last bit of disquiet he
Didn't need, lord of the flies
Open the door, please
Let me in, please
I'm not one with this savage world
I've cut all my ties with the past
I saw you, a living ghost, that didn't
Care, I saw you, when no one
Else dared look your way,
Take these tokens of short-lived pity, please
I'm also a stranger, my fingers hurt
It's cold out here
It's too heavy to drag this and walk away
I just want to talk, you
Know how to drift through
This mess without stumbling on
Shreds, you must know how to fix
Things without hurting
Yourself,
Don't you ?
Don't you, Achiless ?



السبت، 7 مارس 2020

أغنية السقوط

لم لا نكتب أغنيات المجد عن 
الجبناء ؟
عن رماة الراية في منتصف الطريق
عن الزاهدين في لذة الوصول 
عن باهتي العينين ،عن تشابه الفصول
عن المترنحين ساعة العزم، هذه أنشودتي 
كتبتها بعد محاولات للنهوض كثيرة
ساقاي تشكيان و هي كسيرة
 أناظر الصحب يتوارون بدخان المسيرة

ألا يتعب الإنسان من الصمود ؟

ألا يكل متن المرء بعد بضع محاولات للنهوض ؟
ألا يهن العظم بعد العثرة الأولى ، و يصبح الربوض
 
غاية الكادح في أوج عناءه
 
هل من خزي في احتضان الهزيمة
و التمرغ في عبير الخيبة 
النظر الى السماء من مرقد العجز
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