Woman,* *thy name is Strength,

Man, thy name is Fear,

Child, thy name is Future,

Evil, thy name is Hate,

Love, thy name is Pain,

Traitor, thy name is Reward,

Mankind, thy name once was Brotherhood,

War, thy name is Death,

Peace, thy name is Dead,

Freedom, thy name is Enslaved,

Sleep, thy name is *****,

Hope, thy name is Glory,

Anger, thy name is Weak,

Charity, thy name is Welcome,

Ignorance, thy name is Stupid,

Religion, they name is Universal,

Reason, thy name is Doubt,

Science, thy name is Question,

Answer, thy name is Revelation,

Beauty, thy name is Hollow,

Lust, thy name is Sin,

Trust, thy name is Faith,

Envy, thy name is Poverty,

Joy, thy name is Rapture,

Creed, thy name is Seed,

Truth, thy name is Hijacked,

Intolerance, thy name is Hell,

Life, thy name is Delight,

Greed, thy name is Abundant,

Colour, thy name is Art,

Famine, thy name is Grave,

Destiny, thy name is Dream,

Age, thy name is Grace,

Youth, thy name is Polluted,

Earth, thy name is Birth,

God, Thy name is Eternal.



©Rangzeb Hussain

It controls her
She can't stop it
It's a constant battle
She can't drop it

It has become a habit
She can't quit
It's taking over her body
Bit by bit

The scars fade
But the memories don't
She wants them to leave
But they refuse.. They won't

It's an on going battle.
It's a fight she never wins
It's a constant struggle
It's a war that never ends

It's her sweet escape
It gets her lost in her own place
She gets to control the pain
As her adrenaline starts to race

She grabs it off the dresser
As a tear falls from her cheek
She presses even harder
Reminding herself not to shriek

No one understands
No one ever will
This habit now controls her
As the world around her stands still

But now the room is spinning
Her head is getting light
She falls back in her bed
Refusing to put up a fight

She takes one last breath as she turns out the lights
Then she closes her eyes as she calls it a night

To finish your own life by hand,
May seem like the right thing to do.
But to free yourself from this land,
Is to imprison those that love you.

Take a look around
not just the road ahead
Pull over, listen to the sound
of the wind instead

Taste it's sweetness in the air
hold your head up high
and when the day is in repair
touch the starry sky

Smell the living Earth
Don't just blindly drive
Then scream out like you're giving birth
"thank God I'm alive"

My fire has just about
gone now
See the tiny flicker
left alight
I think that’ is probably
my soul
for your sake
and mine
please
do not
exhale

i spend my days
pouring myself into the cups of others

only to find that
when it’s time for myself
to take a sip

all that’s left
in my cup
is the remainder of a girl
who gave too much