The Prison That Fear Made and We the willing captives

Memories fade
But the pain echoes
Wounds heal
But Fears reign
The way forward
Muddled with
Self-Doubts
And Disillusionment
Of Lessons
Learnt
And those
We need to Un-Learn

The road ahead lies
Like a mirage
So close
And yet so far
Dwelling in
Self-imposed Prisons
Like good little girls
Suffering becomes
Our medal of courage
Disturbing the silence
Of the tombs in our heart

When all is said and done
We only have misery for company
For we have been too afraid
Too conditioned by the chains
To break free and
LIVE in FREEDOM


FREEDOM TO SPEAK
FREEDOM TO DANCE
FREEDOM TO LOVE
FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
FREEDOM TO JUST BE


To die in prison, or to live in the vastness of freedom
We can be our own saviour and hero
Just as we can be our own oppressor and enemy
The choice is ours

THE WAY WITH WORDS

Words 

How they injure and maim

The depth of each cut

Slices through every vein

Of our throbbing hearts

Inflicting pains

Without wounds

A Bloodless massacre

Surmounts 

All our scars

Whence do they 

Reap such powers?

Do hate and anger prey

On innocent flowers

Before they could bloom?

Without warning

They beguile and dazzle

The unsuspecting minds

Provoking the rise and fall

Of raptured emotions

Weaving beauty into every line

Embedding soft caresses

Into every whispered verb

Reigning our souls

With its impassioned speeches

How we worship

The Written Word

How we raze through 

Every page or sentence 

Of eloquence in nouns

Like a song it lulls

Every listener 

To delirium

Sparing only

The deaf 

The wielder of words

Disarms with 

An Army of Language

He becomes

A Master of Universe.

Still, I just want to feel a sense of you...(Poem)

Here lies the secret that no one knows
The very root of my joy and pain
It grows higher than any tree can touch the sky
It runs deeper than any mind can hide
It is the same wonder 
That is keeping the stars apart


I'd give anything just to have a day -
One more day 
To spend with you
Nothing more 
Nothing less


Only to have the chance to speak this simple truth -

By my own doing, 

I have failed so miserably

Not to realise just how much 

You truly mean to me

I was a child

A terribly spoilt immature child

Who knew nothing of value

Yet you understood and just allowed me to grow

At my own time and pace

Into the person I am today

I wish you were here to see

How that horrid little weed

Is blossoming into a half-decent flower 

Right at this moment

For this better part of me

Is the one I'd like to give to you

My darling -

I carry you in my heart
I carry your heart in my heart
Wherever I go, I bring you with me
In my thoughts, tucked safely in a place
Named: SWEETEST MEMORIES


This is all I can do now
For the truth is far too cruel
I know I can never be with you


You lie somewhere in an unmarked grave
And to this day, I still don't know where 


Not been given a chance to say goodbye
Not even just to say, THANK YOU 
FOR BEING THE BEST AND GREATEST FRIEND


No one understands me as completely and thoroughly as you did
No one ever could
I guess among all the things I miss the most
This is one of it
It has not been the same since you left this earth
The empty space between past and present
Has grown into an impossible hole
That no one else can fill


It has been 12 years and counting
And yet the wound still feels fresh and new
As if I have lost you all over again


Could this be the reason why I cannot love again?
Or perhaps I just don't want to?


I have never been good at dealing with loss and death
I hate every single thing about it
It robs everything and everyone I adore from me


Wherever you are now, my dearest heart
May you truly know this
That I did love you
And I am sorry I never had the chance to tell you


Goodbye, my dearest precious friend
I am going to let you go now
Thank you for keeping me company in all this time
May we see each other again in another life.