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fakhrriyyah-hashim
fakhrriyyah-hashim
Nigeria I, The supposed stains but a new beginning.
Maybe this is where I belong Amongst shattered dreams and denied hopes Scourging heat and heavy falls Sun stroke and deep floods Abject poverty and closed roads Decimated paths and broken hearts A place where eyes do not meet So guilt remains grounded And pain leaves a trace in the stares of the forsaken Masked faces that need no burden Unworthy of humanity's unraveling Stones their hearts remain A place where they pluck the petals and lay the thorns as they match on Bellies expand Not enough roses to fill the void Like an oversized pair of jeans Stunned by anorexic egos A place where they chase out the truth to paint over with coated mistruths Reality dismissed And God takes the fall for their absurdities Thunder that never strikes Like a myth an ending becomes
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Jun 5, 2017
Jun 5, 2017 at 6:20 PM UTC
Where I'm from
I'm the river that runs dry throughout the year in the Sahel, I'm the tree from which you cut down to recreate , I'm the sun that sets in the west and rises from the East in the wake of the dawn, I'm the moonshines that light up your darkness when the tears dry up, I'm the streams along the nile that drive the thirst back to dead waters , I'm the blooming white verbana when the ray of the sun hits through , I'm the stings that pollinate the spawn seeds on the meadows, I'm the flakes that form snow blankets concealing the crevasses, I'm the desert sand that burns and boils through the feet of a poor orphan child during the summer noontide , I'm the dirt on your path when the heavy drops hits the sands on a wet spring eve, I'm earth's concealed treasures you use to raise metal bars to guard your fears, I'm the stones you collect to raise shelters that trap you together yet awfully apart I'm life's seeds lashing on travellers of earth to disperse across state lines I'm the border crossings birds can't see I'm the thorn that stands guard beneath the blooms of majestic roses I'm the looming darkness that permits the hunter's prey on the wildebeest I'm aurora and my light will guide you through the northern lines I'm the purity of the breeze that slaps your cheeks over the eastern horizon I'm the eagle swimming across the dark clouds with its might awakening the strength in the weak, I'm the womb that carries the supposed stains but a new beginning, I'm the cries of the oppressed coming from the crumbles and the rubbles on a ****** night , I'm the hunger that keeps you awake piercing through the slums, I'm the pain , the sorrow , the tears , I'm the broken pieces inside of you , I'm the washed out dreams, the stolen future, the lost hope, the dead ends. I'm the freedom you die fighting for . I'm the hope that lifts you up at dawn to thrive, I'm the dream that paddles its way to shore, I'm the future, as bright as a supernova I'm the love, the passion, I'm your truth, the reason I'm the happiness you envision at the end of the line . I'm nature with all its might, I am life.
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Jun 5, 2017
Jun 5, 2017 at 6:15 PM UTC
Nature with all its Might
I'm the river that runs dry throughout the year in the Sahel, I'm the tree from which you cut down to recreate , I'm the sun that sets in the west and rises from the East in the wake of the dawn, I'm the moonshines that light up your darkness when the tears dry up, I'm the streams along the nile that drive the thirst back to dead waters , I'm the blooming white verbana when the ray of the sun hits through , I'm the stings that pollinate the spawn seeds on the meadows, I'm the flakes that form snow blankets concealing the crevasses, I'm the desert sand that burns and boils through the feet of a poor orphan child during the summer noontide , I'm the dirt on your path when the heavy drops hits the sands on a wet spring eve, I'm earth's concealed treasures you use to raise metal bars to guard your fears, I'm the stones you collect to raise shelters that trap you together yet awfully apart I'm life's seeds lashing on travellers of earth to disperse across state lines I'm the border crossings birds can't see I'm the thorn that stands guard beneath the blooms of majestic roses I'm the looming darkness that permits the hunter's prey on the wildebeest I'm aurora and my light will guide you through the northern lines I'm the purity of the breeze that slaps your cheeks over the eastern horizon I'm the eagle swimming across the dark clouds with its might awakening the strength in the weak, I'm the womb that carries the supposed stains but a new beginning, I'm the cries of the oppressed coming from the crumbles and the rubbles on a ****** night , I'm the hunger that keeps you awake piercing through the slums, I'm the pain , the sorrow , the tears , I'm the broken pieces inside of you , I'm the washed out dreams, the stolen future, the lost hope, the dead ends. I'm the freedom you die fighting for . I'm the hope that lifts you up at dawn to thrive, I'm the dream that paddles its way to shore, I'm the future, as bright as a supernova I'm the love, the passion, I'm your truth, the reason I'm the happiness you envision at the end of the line . I'm nature with all its might, I am life.
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Drunken and distraught, wide awake, teetering off sanity's pave The hard liquor bottle turns clear Nearing emptiness, of soul and rocks Pain that lingers Anew with the last chug Icy floor, face down drowning in tears and sweat, Bruised and broken Bloodied by a fist so mighty and raw Strangled by a mute reality A reverse of a parallel universe A past irreversible Fast rewind to right before the muscle tension Before the limb landed Before the rumble between two stars The explosion of the expelled now dead star Choking off the missed lanes Wrong turns, Noosed in staring down at a pool of regret Compressed airways, Withering breath, Twitching feet, Circling 'round a live cemetery , Momentary respite, a note slips from the grip As she finds release
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Jun 5, 2017
Jun 5, 2017 at 6:05 PM UTC
End Of The Line
You with no identity Of thoughts awakening my conscious Deepening affections unfathomable At dusk, twinkles of your soul Tickle the core of my deep hue With no face, Of touches trickling through my nerves Sparks gushing across my streams From the back of my palm, caresses strike your lush cheeks Hairs stand on both of ours eyes lost in the sanctity of our company With no voice, Of whistles softer than a nightingale A song, melancholy of love Slipping through your lips As sweet as a glistening sunrise With no name, Of whispers louder than the echoes With no sound bustling as though Exorcised Pierced silence clench deeper, A blasted muteness absolving the cosmos With no scent, Of breeze riddled with your fragrance Undulating across tides and meadows With every drop of rain, tossed Billow of glacier Emanating from earth's core With no being, Of radiance illuminating the vast horizon Scintillating through our whole being Fused elements of our existence Emitting flares of an explosive love
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Jun 5, 2017
Jun 5, 2017 at 5:45 PM UTC
You With No Identity
A fallacy, pretentious and normalised Innately defined of which claims reality rejects Encloses the screams of forced commitments, Despair remains silenced, No one wants to be here But they can't cut off their limbs, or switch lanes No one's done it without spiralling out of existence Struck by constant revulsion on sight Strings of sanity sieved from the sheaths of the conscious The urge to assuage loneliness cruelly descending in deepened solitude Soft hearts turned stone Apathy dissipates Boxed in, then locked out Great walls erected to impede deserting   Bricks piling on as bloodied fists and claws scrape to break them down Grid never empties as more piles descend a game only over when agony triumphs Or maybe the soul breaks free to dance with the stars
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Apr 8, 2017
Apr 8, 2017 at 3:25 PM UTC
The Hollow