(This was composed for my mother on her recent Birthday. Happy birthday mum)
Sunlight pours
Coffee brews
Toast in hand
Morning news
Butter and jam
Knife and spoon
Turkey ham
Not yet noon
Pearl-white dish
Off-white mug
Spread the love
Give a hug
Sugar and milk
Food so true
Day so right
I love you.
written at 5:49 AM
Life is full
(written from unknown source of inspiration.)
Why do I even bother, when I know what the answer will be?
Even though they seem so wrong, I hang on in spite of me?
I cling on to hopes and dreams and very often pray
That maybe, just maybe, Things will be ok.
I keep to aspirations and try to soar up high.
I try to learn new things to find out who and where and why.
But even though, deep down I know, some things will always be,
I hold on to whatever seems more than good to me.
But sometimes life lets me down, and shatters me to dust.
After falling, I get up; I know this is a must.
Life can be so kind and yet so cruel and depressed,
But we must all have faith in Him because he knows what’s best.
He will give us Good in Bad, and Bad in Good because
In life, if there are no ups and downs, just what is the cause?
To all life’s joys and pains and tears, to happy times and sad,
When life seems at its worst, hey, it ain’t that bad!
Just remember what you know, and keep to your beliefs.
There’s nothing stronger than your will if only you believe.
After which you will find, a place inside your heart,
That can conjure up the best of times, even in times of dark.
So don’t slow down, the world turns fast, it beckons you to grow.
To reach your full potential and be all you want to know.
You cannot change the past, dear friends, but what you can achieve,Is just to make, to build, to have, a future here with me.
written at 4:11 PM
god's sweetest angel.
(This was written when in my darkest moment of fear, Jie came.)
As the child of God rest her head,
The Devil stole her mind
And ransacked her imagination, and found
A fear derived from darkness;
A forsaken thought.
Oblivious to the world and he,
She dreamt of friends and fun.
The Devil then planted all that fear
Into her heart, so small
And watched her heart turn bleak.
Her happy dreams were drained
And replaced with so much worse;
Thoughts that made one crumble.
As the moon hung high,
The girl awoke from the nightmare of darkness.
The tears she shed were not in vain
For God had heard her cry.
He then sent down his best angel
To combat the despondency;
To drain the melancholy;
To restore colour and faith
In the dispirited child of God.
The angel came in slumbering linen,
Hemmed in silver and gold,
Wrapped to crystal hearts,
Enfolded the dearest of sisters
To free the enervated soul.
written at 1:15 PM
lost without you
(This poem was written as a way of showing the confusion I felt when a close friend lost touch with me. )
My life without you is like
A guide without a compass;
A candle with no light;
A world with only pain and fear;
A day with only night;
Without you
My world is in black and white;
Like a silent movie
Everybody’s clueless;
Just acting.
Acting.
Please point me to your heart.
Relight my candle of faith.
Be my dreamy dawn of day.
written at 1:09 PM
escape.
(This was written out of sheer boredom and my love for nature. Till this day, it is one of my best and favourite poems.)
Crestfallen youth, escape from the urban rush
Run away with me to the woods of ageless hours
Child of the universe
Touch the sky with your palm
Feel the rain on your cheeks
Feel the ground beneath your feet shudder in delirium
Feel the sand between your toes
Feel the song of nature enthrall and captivate you
Engulf yourself in the rhythm of the wind
And let your mind embark on a journey through time and space
Drift away a trickling stream
On a maple leave of gold
Swim through the cascaded fronds
Gossip with the fledglings
And whisper with the birch and pine
Run forever through the evergreen coppice
Before you return to reality, promise me
You’ll come back to nature
Sometime again.
written at 1:07 PM