Show me, o dear star!
What brightness is

And tell me, o night!
What darkness is

Bring me the sunshine
Bring me the rain

You promised to come by with
Forever for me, again.

And when you knock at the door, a familiar face answers. You had hoped anyone other than her answers but prayers are not always heard. And there she was, hoping it was you. With a giant lump in your throat, you utter the word, 'goodbye', trying very hard not to feel the hurt. Trying to look only at her face and memorise all the details, so this moment can be etched in your heart and soul like you never existed without it.

I wish the sky wasn't blue
And the water below so pure

I wish the mountains weren't so rough
And the weather so fine

I wish the wind were silent
And the traffic not this fast

I wish the sun didn't shine
And happiness ever last

I wish tomorrow weren't just another day
And I wouldn't cry

I wish I didn't love you this bad
I wish I could let go

I wish I could help staring at the sky above
I wish I could lie

I wish these stars weren't real
I wish we could hide

I wish the truth wasn't the truth
I wish I could fly

Away

Away from my self
Away from you

I wish it was easy to forget
Some part of you
You loved so dearly
Burnt away to ashes
Infront of your eyes
With your own soul, giving away

I wish it was easy, not to cry
And cry real hard
When your dreams beneath your feet
Make a lowly noise
And you don't look, you don't stop
You just walk away

I wish it was easy to pretend
You didn't know, you didn't realise
It didn't hurt
When all that was you
You gave away
To an unknown stranger
Who came your way

I wish it was easy to say, 'I love you'
Just when you wanted to say
I wish the rain could wash away
All the traces, they say, will stay

I wish I could say..
I wish I could stay.

I borrow from the night
Some silence

It borrows from me
Some memories of you

He was like the darkness where she could finally see everything clearly. With her mind completely free of doubt, her feet trusted her to walk with eyes closed. In that moment, she could feel the vastness of his being and the naivety of his love for her, like pearls delicately balanced on the wings of a butterfly. One flutter, they would shatter to the ground yet so perfectly beautiful in that moment, you wouldn't dare disturb it nor could you take your eyes off it

'I love you', she said..
But you do not set my soul on fire

In the silence of my soul
I listen to a beautiful song
I see your eyes have secrets too
That your lips so fiercely guard
Yet your heart speaks to mine
Fearless as they are
Their language we don't understand
In silence, they sing to each other
A song without words
It's the thought of being alone when together
And the longing, when we are apart
That the soul feels glad about
But the heart is a fool to know
It wants to dance in madness
Of this strangely beautiful sadness
And it cares not for any silence
For it's been waiting too long
For the one that knows it's song
So it dances in ecstasy
In the belonging and the distance
For it doesn't know the difference

You gifted me a beautiful sadness
Hurt I never knew before
This life is now a sea of madness
Fading footprints on the shore

You said I was a spark
And a lamp, your hearts desire
Then why can't I stop burning now
You set my soul on fire

The road to you is a treacherous one
But you must carry on
For this mirror must shatter
And the image forgotten
For you to see
What was there all along
In all the madness of life
We hold on to what we know
With sweet threads of memories, we sew
Beautiful pictures we love and cherish
But only if mirrors could lie
The way pictures do
We could go on pretending
As if the soul is not a wanderer
In search of its treasure trove
In the dark silence of sleepless nights
It knocks on doors unknown
Looking for the one he knows not
Yet the only one he knows
The one that has a thousand forms
Hope, desire, pain and love
His dream, his truth, his true self
Like a Sufi with a bleeding heart
He follows her to deserts and ruins
Coz all he wants is to know
And the day she steps out of her veil
It will shatter to pieces by itself
For it's beauty the mirror won't hold
And he will dance like a madman
Naked through the valley of flames
For the fire can't burn him anymore
Coz he is burning more fervently inside
There will be tears in your eyes
Yet you will be smiling
Floating weightlessly in your conscious
Then close your eyes and drift away
To the garden of thousand blooms
Which once was the valley of fire
And there you will meet your madman
Drenched and dancing in sweet rain
His bleeding heart is whole again
Like it never knew any pain.

Under the shaded tree
As the sun was setting on a beautiful autumn day
She said, "It feels like love"
He didn't say
Pressed her hand to his lips
Close to his heart she could feel his heartbeat
Staring into the sunset
The beauty of each passing moment
Like rustling of autumn leaves
Turning into a song
Timeless and unnamed
Like the wind that carries it
To this day
Now that the flowers bloom
And the little birds sing
On the branches of that tree
Now gracefully bent
With time and age
It's colour turned pale
Green grass around it
Blue skies above
Clouds come and go
On the mountain top
Insects crawling up its bark
Caterpillars eating away it's leaves
Silent and strong
Whistling with the winds
It remembered
The night of the fireflies
When the mountain slept
And the stars hid themselves
In the dark
A light that shown though
It's dense dew covered branches
Leaves shivered and glittered
As it transcended into the sky
Almost lighting up
Every soul on its way
Fireflies carrying them away
Fireflies all the way
Dancing
Till sunshine came
And they went back
To their resting place.