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Words
break people.

And

Here I am,
using them to
fix
myself.
 Mar 2015 Vafa Batool
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That part of you, you so detest,
is someone else's beautiful.
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I will look at fear
in the eyes today
and defeat it with Your power
 Mar 2015 Vafa Batool
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I know love by how the tears
glistened in my mother's face
as I came home crying one day

I know love by how a passing
stranger changed a fellow stranger's
life with just one look of sympathy

I know love by how a beggar feeds others
before feeding himself despite his
insides telling him to live for himself

I know love by how a young girl
overcame the mean kids in school
with her kind words knowing she did not
deserve it all

I know love by how my best friend  
desperately stopped my hand
from pulling the trigger
gun, pressed coldly to my head

I know love by how you
whisper sweet melodies
in my ears
as I write
this poem for people
to see love everywhere
This is coming from a girl who was often called emotionless/cold hearted several times in her life
 Mar 2015 Vafa Batool
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Write not for the grandeur that is only a fading mirage
Write not for the crowd that licks only two-faced intentions
Write not for the machines that long for manufactured deceits
Write not for a gathering of hypocrites who bite back their own minds
Write not for the faithless who douse passions with their thick-skinned cynicism
Write as you write, pin those words down into reality
And never abandon belief that it is a cosmic unity
Deep within us

Write for the truth
And truth shall reveal itself
In your behalf,
In your tongue,
In your sense,
In your hands
The power of your words
Shall then write itself in the minds
Of
  *everybody
Thoughts at 3 am in the morning!Haha I love writing so much it's almost as if there is a gap in me that I must fill whenever I do not get to write. This is for everyone who loves writing no matter what.
 Mar 2015 Vafa Batool
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Gold
 Mar 2015 Vafa Batool
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A wise oracle once said,
"Men shall become slaves
to the mocking light
of a yellow stone
They shall wage
wars over it
They shall go mad
with fanaticism
They shall blind themselves with
its emptiness and
care for it as their valuable catastrophe

It will ******* weak hearts
It will trick the righteous in a dark,bottomless pit
with no way out for anyone

...

In the end that magnificent,
sparkling stone
will bring out the hungry beasts
in all of us
and polish them
taint them cunningly
with its infinitely depthless beauty"
All that glitters is not gold.
The inspiration from this one came from my Economics professor who said gold had no practical value. And that made me think how something so worthless can actually cause so many problems. Oh what a big allegory for greed.
 Mar 2015 Vafa Batool
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I have been bruised
I have dropped six thousand feet after a euphoric high
I have been defeated in reaching an imaginary sky

But the ground to which I fall on
Has become the strength to which I stand on
The pillar to where I pick myself up after a laborious fight
The friend which tells me that in order
To gain infinities, I must win the
Battles of small beginnings
rough day. And even rougher days to come. My inspirations are nowhere to be found like before and the coming weeks are filled with anxiety. I tell this to myself that has been doubting a lot of things lately
Take me down to California
Away from my home
Someplace far from my soul
Wonder through the snow
Get a little high in the mountains
Someplace far from soul
Opal magic lead me
To somewhere I can be whole
Gypsy lady
I hope you come find me
Swimming through the ocean
Rivers and streams
Anywhere you believe
That I can find my dreams

Take me down to California
Away from my home
Someplace far from my soul
Looking for the ruins
Of my self control
Why can't you see
This place is not for me
I belong with the trees
Animals and little things
Soring through the atmosphere
The clouds hide me
As I wonder through the rabbits hole
Can't you see we all need a little rock n roll
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