The seasons, here you watch them come and go, like lovers that change every time the spark of unnamed delight, turns and drifts over to another soul Just as you’ve smelt the roses, their summer blooms start fading; leaving but a thorny note of regret, as petals fall, hope and belief dissolving NowContinue reading “Rose Garden”
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Lessons
Those sentient stones, guarding the gates to another world Solemn sentries, reminding of a dark, unstable past I look to them in wonder of what it is they’ve lived through And in their mighty story they can offer us a clue From those fading, misty years when the earth coughed raging fire AndContinue reading “Lessons”
After the rain
The sky’s grey fury has been spent From cascading tears, to gently Whispering a final tribute On a moist breeze haunting the fields The trees, they bow beneath the wind In a hesitant symphony; Shaking the water from their leaves They glisten and cease their mourning Soft rays of sun reach out to pierce ThroughContinue reading “After the rain”
A blurred world
I like it when I take my glasses off When the world around me becomes hazy For there’s a kind of beauty in the mist Something precious about imperfection I like the escape from the harsh, blunt world Lines so visibly drawn and too precise Where we police a division, distinct Between the black andContinue reading “A blurred world”
Adieu
Adieu, I hear her whispering A bitter sigh upon her lips Her body’s ache is audible Her pain shimmers before my eyes Her face is blank with resistance Yet I see her grim turmoil as It wreaks havoc – beneath her brow Lurks her mind’s unrelenting ghost I want to touch her, andContinue reading “Adieu”