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2.1k · Sep 2018
Beatific Vision
Ali Ashraf Sep 2018
I hear the voice of the voiceless.
I see the face of the faceless.
People say I am a raving madman
for I kiss upon the passing breeze
thinking of it as your feet.

© Ali Ashraf
Just my interpretation of how divine manifestation or beatific vision would be and how it would effect the individual.
2.0k · Sep 2018
Opium Song
Ali Ashraf Sep 2018
Don’t let it make sense
make it all senseless
the unicorn dances
as the ***** speaks
the true journey
of human soul
and through your blood crawls.

Don’t let it take over
just make it your companion
in the solitary night
where you alone are the champion
of your soul
and ***** sings song
for you alone.

Let it wander in the streets
don’t give it a meaning
just like poetry
or like everything that exists
while ***** sings for you
***** song.

Clouds of smoke,
ashes aloof stand
within your hand
let them all dance
while you in jungle sang
***** song
don’t make sense at all.

© Ali Ashraf
Just an escape from reality
1.5k · Nov 2018
Fragrance
Ali Ashraf Nov 2018
fumed
fragrance far
from imagination's grasp
fills the life's empitness
flowers the spring amidst fall.

© Ali Ashraf
1.4k · Jul 2019
Ecstasy
Ali Ashraf Jul 2019
there's no need to bring
the wine in goblet
for I am so much drunk
seeing those eyes
and I lost my senses
and lost my sight
all I could see is ecstasy
all I hear is ecstasy
all I could say is ecstasy
all I wear is ecstasy
and since I have worn
this love's hairshirt
I put skewers in my eyes
and put my head in dirt
yet the immense beauty
doesn't stop to overcome me
and I live in ecstasy
I breathe in ecstasy

© Ali Ashraf
963 · Oct 2018
Questions
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
in this drunken madness
called "the world"
let's stop for a while
look into mirror
reflect upon ourselves
and ask the same old questions

what does all of this supposed to mean?
what is purpose of all this?
where did I come from?
where am I headed?

© Ali Ashraf
Existential crisis
897 · Nov 2018
Under One Roof
Ali Ashraf Nov 2018
under one roof
were the dreams,
was the beginning
when love was in bloom
under one roof
we loved and lived,
we touched and kissed,
we laughed with kids
under one roof
but then we strayed
from the dreams we saw
the boundaries we laid
under one roof
but we try to compromise
even when love dies
and the worse times arrive
under one roof
and I may have wronged
but I still long
to have a strong bond
under one roof
so please for our family's sake
the future of kids is at skate
let us happily stay
under one roof

© Ali Ashraf
569 · Dec 2018
In Love With Myself
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
I kiss my heart everyday
cause you live in it
I am in love with myself
cause I am the one who loves you
nothing can take me away from you
except you when you take my breath away.

© Ali Ashraf
I wonder how sometimes love leads to narcissism and narcissism leads to love.
539 · Dec 2018
Touch
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
touch every single part of my body
set me on fire with your embrace
let me melt in your arms
let me be lost in your grace

a thousand flowers bloom in my body
with your one touch
and when you brush my hair with your fingers
my entire body yearns
for more of you
for love of you
for touch of you

you become one of me
I become one of you
we shun duality in a blink
and become drunk in each other
as this love's wine we drink

© Ali Ashraf
526 · Oct 2018
You Are the Only One
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
The sound of that laughter
still echoes in my empty life even after
it’s been so long that it has been gone
don’t cry my poor heart
instead be brave and strong
you are the only thing I've left,
you are the only one I’ve got.

© Ali Ashraf
Stay Strong People.
521 · Dec 2018
Tender
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
every single hair of my body is overcome by ecstacy
when with your tender fingers you touch me

© Ali Ashraf
467 · Oct 2018
Once Lost
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
as we neared
to feel
the spark again

as we neared
to have
the touch again

as we neared
to witness
the ecstasy

as we neared
to set
ourselves free

we came to know
it won't be found again
what's once lost

© Ali Ashraf
Can't have it back once lost
458 · Oct 2018
Hurt Me
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
Hurt me honey, hurt me.
Break me and then cut me
Cut me into cubes of misery
Pour spices and then burn me.

© Ali Ashraf
I kind of like writing ******* poems so here's one.
440 · Sep 2018
Hell
Ali Ashraf Sep 2018
They ask me to write humorous poems
but I don’t know humour myself
just as I don’t like to believe in heaven
but I do believe in hell
and I don’t think there’s eternal bliss
for I have never witnessed it
but about eternal damnation: yes,
I carry that within my chest.

© Ali Ashraf
423 · Jul 2019
Prayer
Ali Ashraf Jul 2019
you are the eternal ocean
of love and mercy
with infinite streams
bursting out of you
even if you give one drop
to the entire universe
the stars would sing in joy
and every creature will dance
in everlasting ecstacy
and all I ask for is a drop
from that drop

© Ali Ashraf
416 · Feb 2019
All Over Me
Ali Ashraf Feb 2019
although it's been many days
since you left
but I can still smell
your sweet fragrance
roaming around me
I can still feel
your warm breath
on my skin
I can still feel
your arousing touch
and when I touch
the parts you've touched
I fall in love with myself
for I still have your presence
imprinted all over me

© Ali Ashraf
394 · Dec 2018
Bang
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
Put the gun to your head
Listen to the silence
Don't care for heaven or hell
Have a smile on your face
Keep your tongue in its place
And have a tale to tell
Of the burning of your soul
So that the heavens shake
For time has come to make
The departure to the other side

© Ali Ashraf
Somebody has a gun?
391 · Jan 2019
Why is it all?
Ali Ashraf Jan 2019
why do I feel alone amidst the crowd?
when someone is talking to me
I zone out?
sometimes I cry for no reason at all
sometimes I smile after I fall
why is it all?

why do I end up hurting
everyone I love?
why do I spend my mornings
looking at sky up above?
why do I wish to fly
when I can't even crawl?
why is it all?

why do my relationships don't workout?
why do I weep without a sound?
I am not hurt yet I feel hurt
why do I always stress on ifs and buts?
why am I eager to hang up every call?
why is it all?

why was I born different than others?
why do I always hurt my mother?
why I feel so alone?
even when no one's gone
why do I wish I was never born?

© Ali Ashraf
Wrote this during my work orientation. I was feeling like a misfit.
379 · Dec 2018
Grave
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
my heart is heavier than the norm
there is a thunderstorm
rising within me
of overwhelming misery
life is being ****** out of me
I no longer feel free
I feel like I am being played
by someone else
or maybe it's my own fate
or maybe some sort of curse
I am dying here
O my saviour! save me
I lost myself
somewhere along the way
would you please show me
where is my grave?

© Ali Ashraf
363 · Oct 2018
Being Polite
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
You lighted up my world like a spark for a while,
how unfortunate I was I thought the day has arrived.
I mistook you for sun that was me being naive,
you burned my world and said "I was just being polite".

© Ali Ashraf
336 · Oct 2018
Don't test me more
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
I want to lose myself
in desert, in jungle,
lost in your thought
repeating your name
like an old woman
recites her rosary
until I start to lisp
and my tongue becomes tired

I want to cry
in your longing
until my throat starts to ache
and stops making sound.

Oh, my beloved,
I have never seen
such a grace
that your face holds.
Don't test me more
let us merge and be one
and become careless
about this trembling empire
called the world.

© Ali Ashraf
Just wanted to get it off my chest.
325 · Mar 2019
Get burned
Ali Ashraf Mar 2019
my heart is a grave
where dead you lay
and get burned every day
by the memories of past
lay dead, my love
get burned, my love

© Ali Ashraf
May you rot in hell, Amen.
Ali Ashraf Sep 2018
I have left those days behind
when instead of sun
your smile used to shine,
when you were mine
I have left those days behind.

© Ali Ashraf
for all those who are trying to move on
298 · Nov 2018
True Love
Ali Ashraf Nov 2018
A madman doesn't need to wander
in jungles and desert sand
he carries the raving madness
within his chest, within himself

his shirt torn, his heart ripped
his eyes shedding tears of blood
his repute lost, his senses gone
he stands there proclaiming to be God

such is the ecstasy of true love
such a state of a lover can be
he wanders seven heavens within a glimpse
and puts the universe under his feet

© Ali Ashraf
297 · Aug 2019
Moon Landing
Ali Ashraf Aug 2019
as full moon shines bright
on a dark silent night
and its silver rays illuminate
the nights like days
that's how your smile
put misery to demise
and brought a glow
into my stale life

I know that those
who've been to the moon
those astronauts
spending great fortune
declared it lifeless and barren
and not so beautiful
but hearing those words I sigh
they are blinded by their rationality
moon should be seen through a poet's eye
then they'll perceive the beauty true
and see it as I saw you

but now the longing is gone
and you are here with me
I am afraid what they said was true
and true was their rationality too
it is one thing to see it from distance
it is another thing to touch it
and alas I have learned it soon
only from far looks beautiful; the moon.

© Ali Ashraf
295 · Nov 2018
Sleep
Ali Ashraf Nov 2018
does the man fear
that he might disappear?
I have gone there
to the unknown
when the ringed bell rings
in the drowsy lane of desire
my chest torn apart
my heart entrapped
taken beyond heavens
through the holy gates
of sweet slumber
that much I do remember
the rest I have forgotten

© Ali Ashraf
295 · Oct 2018
Dear Future Wife
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
Dear future wife
have you lost your mind?
cause if you have lost it
I have lost it too.

In that case
there is no trouble
don’t you worry
we’ll make a great couple

but if you are sane
and still want to be mine
then my love you are
losing your mind.

© Ali Ashraf
taking things on a lighter note.
294 · Oct 2018
Life Goes On
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
Have you ever been so alone
that even loneliness is not there?
all the world becomes grey
and not seem to care
I’ve been in such a state
for a long time now
doesn’t matter anymore,
life goes on anyhow.

© Ali Ashraf
no matter what happens life goes on.
281 · Mar 2019
Brow
Ali Ashraf Mar 2019
She lifted her brow
And the universe stood still
What a sight to see

© Ali Ashraf
276 · Dec 2018
Enamoured
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
Amidst the darkness
There comes a light
As my soul is enamoured
By the glow of your memories

© Ali Ashraf
273 · Mar 2019
WORTHLESS
Ali Ashraf Mar 2019
I have travelled a thousand miles
covered myself in thousand styles
kissed the sand and touched the wind
loved and been loved akin
embraced the good and yes, I've sinned
lost sometimes and sometimes I win

one thing I've learned from the journeys made
by becoming a jack of all trades
by having scars of journey on my skin
by letting new experiences in
yes, I've learned this thing for sure
nothing is worth living for

© Ali Ashraf
I am just sad
266 · Nov 2018
Love Said
Ali Ashraf Nov 2018
I said to love "i want to see you"
Love said "see me in veil"
I said to love "but it is veil not you"
Love said "then what you seek is veil not me"

I said to love "I want to see you"
Love said "you don't have the strength"
I said to love "try me"
I have ceased to exist since then

© Ali Ashraf
262 · Jul 2019
Being You
Ali Ashraf Jul 2019
you are in my heart
like a pregnant woman carries
a child in her belly
you never part from me
you are ever growing
you have taken over me
my body, my soul
my heart, my bones
my blood, my veins
now you flow through me
I no longer know myself
I am you
I was never me
it was a deception
I was born drunk
I will die drunk
in your eternal ecstasy
of being you

© Ali Ashraf
I just want to die. My heart feels heavy all the time.
258 · Dec 2018
Pain
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
your love has peeled off my skin
and burned me at stake
I no longer exist
except in pain

© Ali Ashraf
253 · Dec 2018
Dream
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
Between the state of sleep and wakefulness
I see you with half closed eyes

© Ali Ashraf
247 · Aug 2019
Here where I am
Ali Ashraf Aug 2019
Grief will pave the way for happiness
Lose everything and you'll find everything
Here where I am, everything is topsy turvy
Here where I am, being is not being
Here where I am, not being is being

When the face of the king appears
Give away your everything
Everything that you once loved
Everything that you once had

The core essence of your being
It belongs to the king
Don't even say "uff"
Just give away your head as a sovunier
And your heart will become gold
That will shine forever

© Ali Ashraf
241 · Dec 2018
Unrequited Love
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
My eyes bleed with pain
My soul consumed in its own fire
Its own desire
I am going insane
I drink blood of my boiling veins
and rotten pieces of my liver
I consume.
My burnt heart turned into fume
I am in eternal damnation
called unrequited love

© Ali Ashraf
230 · Oct 2018
Having Faith
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
those who are repelled
by your face
won't be inspired
by your words

just be true
to yourself
don't seek
their approval

even God
has haters
who do you think
you are?

just have faith
in yourself,
you can't impress
the whole world

© Ali Ashraf
Believing in yourself is enough
229 · Dec 2018
Light
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
my friend needed light
so I burned myself
to light up his nights
and make his days bright

© Ali Ashraf
223 · Dec 2018
Moonlight
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
under the moonlight
she shines bright
as if she is the moon
and moon seeing her sight
becomes drunk

© Ali Ashraf
216 · Jul 2019
Injustice
Ali Ashraf Jul 2019
let me consume in my pain
and drown in my blood
as my struggles go in vain
indifferent stays the heaven

so let there be no justice
and no mercy to the innocent's cry
let this be a tyrant's world
as within myself I die

© Ali Ashraf
208 · Nov 2018
Virgin
Ali Ashraf Nov 2018
Is there a maiden so fair
no one touched or laid eyes on?
that I can hold in my arms
and forever call my own?

© Ali Ashraf
205 · Aug 2019
I still love you
Ali Ashraf Aug 2019
O owner of soul
source of my being
keeper of secrets
take off all my skin
one by one
then cut my body into pieces
one by one
spill my blood on the streets
one by one
then burn those pieces into flame
one by one
then gather the ashes of those pieces
one by one
and scatter those ashes in the air
one by one
you would still hear me say
I still love you

© Ali Ashraf
203 · Feb 2019
Somebody Tell Me
Ali Ashraf Feb 2019
Although I've burned
all of your pictures
but how should I burn
what's imprinted on my heart?
even though it's burning.
Although I've forgotten
what you said
but how could I forget
and peel off my skin?
that has your memory
like blood stains
living all over it
bleeding time by time.
How could I undo
what's already done?
how could I walk
with broken bones?
that call your name
with each crack
and I know that I can't
live with you anymore
but how could I live
with this traitor
that beats inside me
still calls out your name.
how do I live
with myself anymore?
somebody tell me.

© Ali Ashraf
202 · Jun 2019
Smoke
Ali Ashraf Jun 2019
our love was a gate
of heaven so fair
from that fell
the hell fire
and the promises we made
were thin air
in smoke went
all desire

© Ali Ashraf
192 · Oct 2018
Endless Quest
Ali Ashraf Oct 2018
I have travelled so much,
so much that my feet
have become sore
still, I yearn for more.

when will end this quest?
how much more will I search?
what is this thirst that I have?

I don't know
where I am going
I don't know
who I am anymore
I don't know
how will I reach there
and I don't even know
what I am looking for.

© Ali Ashraf
I don't know anymore
191 · Aug 2019
Melancholia
Ali Ashraf Aug 2019
adorned in melancholy
I am sleepless at midnight
occupied by your thoughts
my eyes shed tears
and I make necklace from those pearls
to hang myself
to sacrifice myself for love

your love has made me wither
I have lost all wishes
and my tendency to wish
is it human? is it sane?
is it moral? is it humane?
I am beyond questions now
I don't want answers
I just want to weep tirelessly
and repeat your name
all night long
as I am adorned in melancholy
sleepless and tired.

© Ali Ashraf
191 · Jul 2019
Somewhere
Ali Ashraf Jul 2019
I belong somewhere beautiful
among the beautiful people
where language is poetry
where roses sing in praise
where crystal clear rivers flow
where sun does not burn
where moon is always full
and where you and I
sleep in each other's arms
all night long under the full moon
where morning breeze brings joy
where there is no work at hand
where love is the only currency
where eyes sprinkle with happiness
where there is no fear
where there are no laws of nature
neither human laws to adhere
where it's neither so cold or hot
where things do not rot
where hearts speak and tongues listen
where all lovers live in communion
that place never existed
that place might never exist
but when I close my eyes, I see it
and I am filled with joy.

© Ali Ashraf
188 · Jan 2019
Satan
Ali Ashraf Jan 2019
I'd rather create my own hell
than to have a borrowed heaven
a burning heart does not desire
hell or heaven that are in numbers seven
create your own world even if it be worst
bow down to none except your own self
for self is the biggest secret of all
those who bow down to their self
under their feet lies heaven and hell
and the universe lies in their thrall

© Ali Ashraf
188 · Mar 2019
Alone
Ali Ashraf Mar 2019
I don't begin
I am never done
I don't take a wife
or have children
I am lost in all
I am all in one
when you get close
to knowing me
I change my form
I can only be known
as the unknown
I was never born
I am never gone
all else is illusion
I exist alone.

© Ali Ashraf
185 · Dec 2018
Despair
Ali Ashraf Dec 2018
nothing in sight
no dawn arise
only sorrows blight
my meek existence
and consume the light
from my heart
the times of despair
have killed me inside
I have no reason to live
I have nothing to fight
I am falling deep
into life consuming blackhole
of my own existence

© Ali Ashraf
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