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You laugh
Angels weep out of jealousy
Devils have no single conspiracy
Demons dancing in harmony
Men hearts go broken with no remedy
Women eyes tearing continuously
Violins break out of envy terribly
Composers have no more creativity
Music plays with no melody
Silence starts listening joyfully
Happiness laughters left in agony
Beautiful words describe nothing but misery
Tulip flowers become colorless shamefully
Believers lose their faith immediately
Infidels drop their convictions instantly
Hearts start beating rapidly
Lungs oxygenating quickly
Living ones laying listening carefully
The dead come back miraculously

--Hisham Alshaikh
You Laugh. Version 1.
the music is so loud it’s covering my emotions. i glance over to you, who is shining as bright as the lights we’re sitting beneath. there’s a small gap between us but it contains so so much. it contains lost opportunities and words i never got to say.

i wait while everyone leaves. you’re still sitting here. maybe your heart is waiting for mine, just like how the sun waits for the moon before it sets. but, the sun and moon never meet, just like how i never got to see you before you went into a separate world, where it was bright and illuminated. unlike mine, where the dark overpowered the light.

an eclipse is a rare occurrence where the sun and moon do meet. they stand right next to each other and they stay there for a while. just like how i’m staying here for you and how i want you to stay here for me.

stay here for a while so i can feel you again. stay here for a while so i can talk to you again. stay here for a while so i can tell you i love you again, just like how i did during the last eclipse.
smile.
crinkles form by your eyes and the corners of your mouth go up. it’s a sight i want to treasure, a sight i never want to forget. i feel the pace of my heart start to pick up and i feel the way i gasp for air because, darling, you take my breath away with every smile of yours.

laughter.
just like how the sound of an acoustic guitar being strummed slowly and gently brings you peace and calm, your terribly sweet laughter does the same. it’s dripping with honey. it turns the hurricane in me to a still day. your laughter calms the storm in my heart.

body.
i brush my fingers along your cheek and i feel silk under my fingers. my love, you are so precious and rare but also so real and flawed. your warm arms were made for holding me and there is no where i would feel more comfortable in than your embrace. it’s safe and cozy, your soft arms around my waist and my dry fingers on your back. your scent dances around the tip of my nose and it’s an addictive smell, a scent i could still gladly inhale a hundred years later. you, who is so much like home, make me feel safe.

everything.
the divine night sky is made of myriads of stars. just like you, my muse. you are made up of myriads of little stars, unique features all making you the person you are. the person whom i am oh so deeply in love with. i am in love with you, the boy who means the night sky to me.
she held the greatest capacity for love
he had ever seen,
for her heart had been shattered
more times than she could count.

she told him to stay away,
for she feared the love of another man.
though that didn't stop
the evident spark between the two.

she finally jumped
into the arms of love,
and forever they will
dance in the dark
to the sound of slow jazz.

pulling their bodies apart,
and their hearts together once more.
At the coffee shop

You sit gingerly opposite me, watching
I can almost touch the beauty you see in me
It's written like the title of a book all over your face, leaning in close to mine

Gazing into your warm hazel eyes is like attempting to escape a beautiful well of tears
Your eyes flicker, tenderly ******* my soul

In that moment I see what you see
I am yours, my heart yours and our souls intwined together in a display of shared tears and deep kisses
You eclipse any sadness I have ever felt

Your dark eyes yearn after my naked frame,
However it's impossible to get any closer than our thoughts overlapping from across the table

Reflected in your eyes I see your honesty and your love and the creases around your eyes when you smile

But what really strikes me,
As poignant as the glint from the diamond on my finger as I reach for my coffee,

Is that I can see myself, perfect, as I am in only your eyes
Beauty known only to your eyes
To my only beholder

KG
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