notice
how the chandelier
trembles and shakes
above you
as you enter the room

you have the potential to intimidate
anyone
those that are
old
young
wise
naïve
female
male
rude
kind
popular
wallflower
ev­en the chandeliers in your life

because people desire to be reflected
mirrored in their actions and emotions
but if you’re aware of this
you can interrupt the pattern
and be the one with power
regardless of the other’s characteristics

you can make the other intimidated
you can make the other tremble and shake
adopt a stoic face
consciously withhold the feedback
that the other unconsciously desires or expects
and watch
as they tremble and shake
in the midst of your confidence
in the midst of your newfound power

Fate brought us face to face
So we came near each other
Your soul illuminated me
To make me LOVE YOU

Then life pushed us away
And we had to go
With the saddened face
Away from the laughing world

Your tearful eyes
And my humiliated soul
We stepped away from each other

Neither had we come near on our own
Neither had we LOVED on our own
Neither had we left on our own

If anyone can find
A few other BELOVEDz-LOVERz
As defeated & successful as we
One can only find them in stories of
Romeo-Layla-Majnun-Zuliet

It is the fate of all BELOVEDz-LOVERz that
Whatever move they make in life
Is at the loss & longing in LOVE

Yet, LOVERz are fortunate
That they don’t get hooked to
The lures & charms of living life

Let BELOVEDz continue feeling LOVE
Let LOVERz continue realizing LOVE

Only then a BELOVEDz soul-LOVE
Can rescue a LOVERz life

Thus, one should keep LOVING
Until one finds within
Birth & death in LOVE…

LOVERz-BELOVEDz
Are born out of LOVE
And die due to LOVE

Otherwise…
In today's times & today's world
Who cries in LOVE nowadays?
Who dies in LOVE nowadays?

You are my midnight madness
A lover in my dreams
A rewinding case of happenstance
That’s never as it seems

Yet still, such lust soaked visions
Fly free into the night
And I refuse to seek the dawning
Unprepared to meet the light

So lost in moonlit whispers
A forbidden serenade
Where echoes paint the shadows
Like a dream in masquerade

And just as waning slumber
Creeps slow around my door
I resist the rising consciousness
Hungry still, wanting more

I revel in our passion
A frenzy cloaked in black
Such sweet intoxication
No cause for looking back

You are a twilight fancy
A relentless fantasy
A ghost that haunts my stillness
A flame that cannot be

Yet, how I love the falling
How the whispers sweetly stream
You are my Phantom calling
Always in my dreams…