one of the Orient’s oldest
and most beautiful important cities
inhabited for thousands of years
by generations after generations
of craftsmen, merchants, artists, dynasties,
famous architects of all styles and religions,
the western end of the old silk road
home to over 2 million citizens
until not long ago
a few weeks of modern warfare
were enough to destroy
what hundreds of generations had built
for their living as well as their sense of beauty
rockets exploded churches, temples, and mosques
artillery pulverized ancient palaces and new houses
barrel bombs and poison gas
killed the people
on tv we now see acres of urban wasteland
miles of rubble with no life
except for occasional tanks and soldiers
proclaiming victory over these ruins
in the name of a dictator whose regime
has become a puppet in global power games
no matter what the cost in lives or things
to destroy is easy
building things up is hard work
with friends like these
who needs enemies
Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 at 9:43 PM UTC
A vision of life is with me still
Past the holes in war torn hills
An image of hope, that will not die
Despite the tears, in my child's eye
Life persists, among a field of death
Shallow, bleeding but still with breath
A flower once white, now bathed in red
Still lies standing, among the fallen dead
The skies are smoke, thick and hot
An inferno of battle, shells and rot
The earth is painted, in shades of brown
But where splashes of red, taint the ground
While innocence dies, the flower endures
Perfect petals wilting, to war's overtures
That flower is the peace, for which we die screaming
The very thing being slain, when we fight for its being
The children who we protect, with swords and shields
Are the soldiers who die fighting, upon our battlefields
Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 at 9:41 PM UTC
You think you know me
Because you know of patterns
You know the way of people
And you've been told the way the world turns..
You expect my next move
As if we are playing a game of chess
And you anticipate your next win
Upon my unmoved guess..
I tell you now,
that you know nothing of my mind
I move with the waves of my heart
My chosen next move is mine.
Jan 4, 2016
Jan 4, 2016 at 11:31 AM UTC
See the emblem waving
Proudly, touted in the sky.
We walk among our brethren.
We recourse, resource the reason why.
All, in trepidation...
We cry out for separation.
Could it be our own downfall,
Equality, but not for all -
But, not for all?
Citizens of the nation,
Before humanitarians,
First comes clicks of locking doors.
Equality does not endure.
A man of any land should be my brother.
The whole earth, to us, our mother.
Could it be our own downfall,
Equality, but not for all -
But, not for all?
See the burden being carried
High upon laden backs,
Tautly stretched, with shoulders bending.
Each fear the other will attack.
The words have been the same,
But for intent that's not their own.
For too long, have we been believed.
Equality is just for some -
Is just for some.
Freedom is only for the free.
The lines that keep the captives buckling,
The doors that keep them let them go.
They have no where to escape.
Always there is tyranny
For the landless refugee.
He is no man as worthy as you.
Equality is just for some -
Is just for some.
All the lessons that teach us to love
The home of brave and free
Are based on notions that could not be true,
If all are not the same as you.
And, are they not the same as we,
Who are decorating for our holidays.
Living in our plentitude,
Singing songs of charity and caring -
Charity and Caring?
Gifts are given and received.
Do we remember the lessons taught
About the kind of men we are,
When another is in need?
Do they not rate the same concern
As the presents and the tree,
As we pray in Holy Spirit,
Singing songs of charity and caring -
Charity and caring?
See the emblem waving
Proudly, touted in the sky.
We walk among our brethren.
We recourse, resource the reason why.
All, in trepidation...
We cry out for separation.
Could it be our own downfall,
Equality, but not for all -
But, not for all?
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 12:54 PM UTC
We know what we want to pin up,
But not sure what to pin down.
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 12:51 PM UTC
you get so used to something;
to someone;
never expect them to abandon you
though you condoned their departure
you saw it coming
it was all experienced yesterday
except, then
it was only a distant speck
you brushed away the dust you kicked up and
ignored the arguments that weighed on your conscience
you saw it coming
yet it still hits you like a freight train
with your back to it;
your earphones in
because you were trying to enjoy a walk
on such dangerous tracks;
such thin ice
you saw it coming
so what choice do you now have
but to finally collapse;
to let it run you over
and let your
omniscient bones
break?
you saw it coming,
but you let it hit you anyway.
please, get out of the way next time.
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 12:50 PM UTC
because when she was young,
people would ask her
"what superpower,
do you wish for?"
so without any hesitation
she replied "invisibility."
and then,
and then she grew up realising
it came true.
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 12:49 PM UTC
Few things are as black
As a snowless December morning
In Norway.
Some nights it's so
Dark I can't
Sleep.
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 12:49 PM UTC
How can they not see what i do?
an emptiness behind my eyes
a lost soul behind 'happy' smiles.
Maybe they are just too dead themselves
to notice.
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 12:49 PM UTC
we are just travelers in empty roads
running around insanity until we get lost
searching desperate for love
touching with revenous passion
to feel something more.
But why do we always end up alone?
Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 12:48 PM UTC