Tuesday 12 November 2013

There comes the pallbearer



Here comes the pallbearer
He is the man in the mirror
Where the mockingbirds are
Do you see the flapping wings?

This is the part
Where you believe in
What I believe in...

If you read this line
And this one
Then you are many steps behind me...

The pallbearer
Came with his hands bare
My pallbearers
Are smiling...

Where I am
Is where I am
The mirror is shattered
Now your eyes are my mirrors
A thousand errors
But you think you are right

The mirrors
The mockingbirds
You are never alone

The bearer of my body totters
Musk
Hoor al ain
Green birds...
I’m not dead...!

I’m sorry mother
But this world isn’t what I wish for us
I’m sorry mother
But I’ve to sell my life for our jannah…

My brothers will understand
That my death will bring good
To a chosen 70

But I’m sure my love
In the cold of Ternopil
Will never understand
Why my pallbearers
Came too soon...

I’m sorry
But I can’t have a life
When the Ummah is bleeding...


Untitled Expressions



I think it’s going to be one hell of a trip. Pockets are full and the tank is filled up with fuel. My bags are all packed up and I took a camera just in case. It’s a vacation trip, it’s a work trip, I’m really not sure what it is… I’m leaving my home to live far away; where I’ll be nothing but a simple immigrant.

I think it, hoping I get to live it. Do my words always have to make sense? Does life have to be as straightforward as directions? There is what I mean when I write, there is what you think I mean when you read and there is what I want you to think…

I’m walking through the white sands of the filthy beach. Barefooted. My thoughts are at base. No rolls, no fire… just those beautiful words in Arabic.

My love for you is an illusion. It’s a picture I painted in my thoughts. Amnesia. I lost the image, I’ve lost you. Maybe there was never a you because you were never the you I thought I knew. You lied. If I really meant that much to you, you wouldn’t have let me slip away.

You gladly shoo me. Tell me to run along… you watch and smile because he is right behind you, holding you so close. Did I ever exist? You don’t seem to exist here. You never did have a place in my heart because you sold it to my solitude.


I think it’s time I walk away. I’m coming after you because I don’t want to die here. I want you in my arms when I die. You belong in my arms. Love, fear, hope… I still believe you are probably the only solution to my worried heart…