Dreams have a way
of reuniting us with those
we have loved and lost
to the grave and to time.
Dreams have a way
of telling us they're not really gone,
but forever with us
in heart and in soul.

The devil must
live in the ocean.
That is why the costal cities
are nests of sin and squalor.

You cannot teach
someone how to love you-
you can only find
someone who does.

Your smile still
shines like a sunflower
and only your laughter
can bloom this heart.

We are just
ordinary poets in
an extraordinary world.
We have no fancy words nor meter-
what sets us all apart are our stories
and no one can take that
away from you.

Last haiku of an
arduous year and I will
go out with a bang

12:53 PM
22/12/21

I have dreams
that only you can
make come
true.

Come and fill this space
in my heart that no one has
been able to fill

4:11 PM
28/3/22

12365 kilometres,
an ocean and two countries apart-
it may as well be another galaxy,
yet I can feel the warmth of
your smile radiate from
across the globe and I can
still sing along to your heartbeat.
With all this distance,
we are never really alone
when our love
transcends all.

Lose yourself in the
sunshine of the summer sky.  
Let the sunflowers cradle you like
the sun cradles its children below.

You made me dependent
and now I hate myself for
ever letting it get
to this point.

She was
ninety-nine percent angel,
but oh,
that other one percent
****** me
up.

Though I am lost,
I am still trying to find
my way back to who I was.
I am still out there,
somewhere,
and I believe he too is trying
to find his way back to me.

Dear diary;
I find myself either
staying home and
wishing I had gone out or
going out and
wishing I had stayed home-
there is no in between.

The only thing we
should depend on is ourselves.
Everyone else is just an illusion-
do not fall for it.
So live life your way-
there is no other way.

I either feel too
much or I don't feel at all-
there is no between

11:58 PM
28/6/22

Isn't it funny how
the days, weeks, months
never seem to change,
but looking back,
the years never
feel the same?

Truth hurts, few people
want to hear it and many
feel attacked by it

3:31 PM
29/10/22

My life is a mess
but so are
you.

I am not heartbroken
by your lack of faith,
but by your denial
of what we held sacred.

I feel better when
the memories of you and
I come flooding back

12:58 PM
3/4/22

"You don't seem quite yourself."
you used to say to me.
You never really did understand
that there is more than one
who inhabit this body
and that you only
loved one of them.

sometimes time is the
only remedy for a
little broken heart

8:28 PM
26/12/19

I have met
so many hearts and
let go of so many more.
Each one I remember-
I cherish them all so much
that every now and again,
I can't help but shed a tear.

December trudged
after November looking haggard
After carrying another year on its back.
As if that was not enough,
we burden December with our
expectations and hopes
of a miracle.

You were my greatest
sleepless night and my greatest
and only daydream

12:59 PM
9/5/21

The demons in me
are waiting for another
body to possess

4:17 PM
29/10/21

Dear diary;
Sometimes,
I let myself give in to the
hope of holding
you again one day.
False hope, maybe,
but it's the only thing that
gets me through
nights like these.

I think a part of us
knew this was never
meant to last,
and how could it?
We were too different-
two worlds colliding,
and yet we did not care.
We let love prevail-
it was too strong to deny.

Silence comes in
many shades,
for good or for worse.
Sometimes the soul can take
solace in silence and
sometimes it can drown in it.
Other times we cannot tell the difference,
and we are left to decipher our soul
and what shade of silence
it chose today.

You are my sun,
and I am your moon.
Find your way to me across
the skies, the land and the oceans
and meet me at dawn.

I close my eyes and
summon you into a dream.
Even if it's for a little while,
let's pretend it is real.

Most people will never know
the burdens you carry,
all the demons,
all the sleepless nights,
and all the love and loss along the way.
They will never know
the hidden strength it took you
to get out of bed each morning,
to put on a happy face,
and to do it all again.

The sunflowers
whisper your name
as they spell it in the fields.
They gently sway
as the scent is carried in the wind
and I am once again reminded
of your love.

Not even the rain
could stop you from brightening
up this dreary day

6:37 PM
26/7/20

Nobody wants to
be sad but we're human and
no one's free of it

9:32 AM
19/8/23

I regret to inform you,
but I'm not home anymore.
I have left that place and all
the memories that remained.
One day I hope to forget
all the pain stored inside
the place I called my home.
Indeed, I have moved away from you
and I am not looking back.

Why do I write about you
when you cannot see my words?
I do it because my heart
will not let me have it any other way.
This feeling may silence this voice,
it may even destroy me,
but these hands will continue
to write.

All the heartbroken,
the lonely and the dreamers
all hear the same song in these
early hours of the morning.
We are solitary
yet the night sings us
to sleep or something
more sinister.

Acknowledgement does
not equal attachment and
most of the time it is inevitable
to get lost in one or more
of these states of mind.
It is inevitable not to miss
what you once attached
yourself to.

But I have never
cared about taking myself
so seriously

4:26 PM
25/3/22

I guess I wasn't
built for this whole love thing but
that's okay with me

3:48 PM
5/11/21

The heart is
a heavy burden
for anyone
no matter how strong
they think they are.

you are a sunflower that
coats this ground in petals.
They form a path for me to follow,
a path that will always bring me
back to you.

Not all goodbyes
are considered a loss.
Rather than see it as a separation,
See it as an opportunity
to start anew.

By midnight,
I watched you fall
asleep,
as you watched me fall
in love.

Even though
I love you hard,
it is still so
easy.

I have found havens
all over the world where I
can escape my skin

10:57 AM
14/9/21

I now know that
I cannot live without love,
but love alone is not enough
to vanquish these demons.
They are not so easily repelled by love alone,
in fact they are not satisfied
by anything at all.
They feed on the darkness
and in this emptiness,
they make their home.

This ship is going
to sink despite the fact that
I can hold my breath

6:26 PM
15/8/21