4 LETTER WORD

I once talked to a man
Who said love was but a 4 letter word
“That’s all it is, you say?
That seems shallow and absurd.”

He laughed at my reply
And looked me in the eyes
“It’s just a 4 letter word you see,
A 4 letter word like ‘glee’.
It means nothing more
Than ‘seed’ or ‘door’
‘Cause it’s just a 4 letter word.”

I thought for a moment
At the words he said.
But what he meant
Made no sense in my head.

“But love is a feeling that stays
Not just a word you say
It comes straight from your heart,
It’s not as simple as ‘line’ or ‘cart’
So why would you mention
What seems a deception
Of this 4 letter word?”

His eyes sparked a light
As he listened to me speak
I gazed, confused, at the man,
Not sure what to think.

“A dozen people I’ve met,
And they all have their minds set
That what I say is true,
But love means something to you.
Thank you for having some heart,
And not just agreeing from the start,
‘Cause love is more than a 4 letter word.”
 

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TRUE LOVE

True love passes all the limits of understanding
True love expresses ever lasting loyalty
True love hurts but can also learn how to heal
True love weaves the highest dreams
True love accepts the good and bad in another
True love only wants what is best for each other
True love lends sympathy and forgiveness
True love washes away tears that have been not shed
True love erases the pains that have been kept hidden
True love turns an ignorant boy into a mature young man
True love softens the heart of an innocent girl to a nurturing young woman
True love never lies
True love never ignores
True love sees love when hair turns white and hands tremble
Most of all True love never breaks promises until the vows have been broken
 

LOST THOUGHT

I can no longer sleep, with the waves in my head.
I’m scared to know how long I’ve been a drift.
I see, but hold my breath that it wasn’t all fake.
Were you sent to drown me.
When I already crowned you as mine.
I only wanted what I never had.
Serpents shift, Lone wolf eyes set forward.
That’s where our circle began.
Did you ever see the real me.
Do I even know you, it all seems a distant memory.
The lifelong lesson, being played out on me.
I let you pull my strings, and watched as you put on the show.
Feeling it deep inside, when the hard eyes hit my soul.
The eyes of disappointment, and disapproval.
I needed your love so badly.
Knowing that I was your message in the bottle.
How many punches I take, too make my past wrongs, right.
I try to stay a float, and seem to sink deeper.
Curiosity is breeding cats & killing barking dogs.
I can’t remember when I last felt myself.
 

FREESTYLE

Alone in the dark I can see your face
It’s about the only place
The image remains
It’s a vast empty space
Where our love has maintained
As my mind slips away
I drift in my own depths and I stay

For in the light of the day

Reality forces you far away
So I pray in my faded dream I may lay
With my horrid demons you may say
Because I am sinfully in love with the way
Your heart starts simply pounding away
I wish it would stay forever this way
But it’s a deceitful rest for I awake where I have laid
Alone in the dark with only the image of your face
 

DUST

You’ve left now, you see,
Left reality,
Now you exist in between

You’re outside the in
Where dreams must begin
Where nothing can truly be seen

Time is not real
Life is surreal
But really, here “real” can’t exist

There is no tomorrow
No joy and no sorrow
Please, try to feel, I insist

I hope that you find
What you left behind
(You should’ve enjoyed what you had)

Oh great, now you know,
There’s no where to go
(Your life really wasn’t that bad)

I know you believe
That now you must leave
You have to, you need to, you must,

But though you endeavor
You’ll be here forever
Where everything’s nothing, you’re just a dust.

WINGS OF LOVE

Kiss me again in the shimmering rains,
The wind is singing her love songs again.
Come back to me like a joyful dove,
And kiss my lips with tenderness and love.

Your love is like the sea playing on many shores,
Your heart sailed away into my heart’s door.
Sea birds are playing on the gorgeous beach,
Your fictive love is hard to reach.

I am the wind singing in your heart,
Tie me like a chain never to part.
My love for you is an unending ocean,
You are a choir singing my poems of devotion.

Invade me once again to heal my pain,
Captivate me with your beauty in the rains.
A flower is born and a flower will die,
Let your love not fly like birds in the skies.

Fly away like an eagle but come back to me,
Kiss me again like the waves in the mesmerizing sea.
 

UP THE JUNCTION!

you’re mysterious
perplexing, mesmerizing
and close to the bone

you’re captivating
enchanting, riveting
and near the knuckle

tell me why you left?
left and went up the junction?
I should have told you

that I am spellbound
fascinated and
forever enslaved.

THE LOOKING EYES

She tosses and turns all night every night
With eyes wide open, and thoughts adrift
She is grateful for the darkness that surrounds
For she’s too proud to let anyone know

Every night her mind travels back
To the dream she had once lived in
She yearns to find herself again
Staring at the dwindling tracks behind her

She wanders presently into today
How usual everything appeared
She was alive without the dream
Smiling and waving at everyone she met

She hears a sigh in a corner
And quickly closes her eyes in pretense
To all who see, she may well be dead
Except, a tear runs across her face

She greets every morning Sun
Her eyes filled with cheer and her heart with hope
Nothing remains of the agony of the night
But, the stains on her soft pillow
 

MY ROSE

On a lonely island, the water
clear and all around me,
there is a stone in front in the water;
upon which a Red rose lies.
It is so close to pick up, but
where I stand it is slowly,
floating away; uncertainty
hangs over my heart,
like a King’s cloak, but
this deep sadness like the ocean
in front of me, comforting
yet piercing

I am chained by my helplessness.
Desire-my desire; it is checked and subdued
into a dark vortex
with rushing waters behind me.
Souls entwined, the stars’ path
have crossed , What force blocks my path?

But the Truth.

Walking through the King’s Hallway
The Beloved enticing hope
A wall of silence is conjured, but not wanted;
Words are open, but the sound is dampened.

Cherubs and Seraph
And Angel, on the conscious path
Dreams are longed because reality is shaded.

Birds with blue and black soft feathers
soar through dancing rain,
these aqueous entities dance
to a slow waltz, but never
touch, since uncertainties
build, but the sun opens,
the stars shine like candles

Happiness and Hope hold hands
Filling my Dreams.
My Rose; I am here, I will have Time
In my hands, and wait in Melancholy and uncertainty.
My Rose, My Hope eternally.
 

ETERNAL GRACE

Today you’re here, tomorrow you’re gone;
Time keeps passing by.
From the first day forward in this world
You live until you die.

Lovers come and lovers go,
Time permits a kiss.
Only a moments time to spare
In such enchanted bliss.

You’re running here, you’re running there,
The rush will never stop.
The hand is turning ’round and ’round
On the face of every clock.

Much too soon the things you’ve planned
Will stare you in the face.
Will you ever reach the finish line?
Will you soon complete the race?

There’s not a chance for you must live
As long as God intended.
Time’s passing fast and we must run
Until this life has ended.

And then, what lies beyond the grave?
Another’s life desired?
Eternity will never end
In heaven or in fire!

Eternity can’t be explained
But try to do your best
To serve our God and do what’s right
To receive Eternal Rest.
 

CONFIDENCE

How many days has it been?
A small crack appears in the stone
As the men besiege the castle,
Swords glinting in the light.

The gates burst open and
An arrow whizzes overhead,
The king crumples by his throne,
And the cheers erupt.

The men and women grab clubs,
Demolishing the golden chair.

The façade crumbles,
The walls come crashing down,
And left in the dark corner,
Lies the tattered crown of the agonized king.
 

TRAPPED

Ever feel trapped
Like you’re in a hole and can’t get out
Like you’re buried alive
Like you’re a caged mouse
Like you’re stuck on a level
Like you’re helpless and can’t get up
You’re not alone
Ever feel trapped
Like your in a living hell
Like there’s no hope for you
Again, I say you’re not alone
But remember this.,

 Even in the darkest area

 A touch of light can bring hope

THE WAY OF LIFE

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The cool and noisy sea-air blows.
The young get mad and
laugh and jump onto
the deafening waves.

The aged’s eyes,
sitting in the beach,
swallow the vast sea
that ends with the line
between itself and the sky.
They can not digest it.
It only wanders in their bellies.

My eyes are
fixed on the snails
clinging the sandy bed with
their muscular feet,
continuously pushed and pulled
by the waves.
Some still cling,
some float away;
and the unseen tears roll down
from my teary eyes.
 

ETERNAL LOVE!

Leave My heart open
And ready to fall again
Remembering those pain
Still to overcome..
A voice inside of me
Said be aware your repeating a mistake
I warned my heart
But it cheated me like always..

Voices were quite
I only see silhouette
Love is ephemeral or eternal?
I have become enslave of my own emotions
That incident trapped by soul
And tore my heart into pieces..
I am convincing my mind to forget it
Thought another shot of whisky will do it..
But Her eyes and smile more I missed
Hormones racing with every quarter I have finished…

Struggling and fighting I fall asleep
She appears in my dream and I believe
Am I a weaker man or
Is this event driving me insane?
Finally my heart whispers me the answer
That I have learned to love again…
 

A CHILDHOOD DREAM

Childhood dreams turned to dust

As I walk down these halls

I search to see a picture hanging on the walls of me.

I bunk in a room with friends I have

Grown to love

We all wish for a happy home.



A birthday party and sleep over too

A mother and father to hear you say I love you.

Wishing to have what others do

Playing a game of baseball or..

Two Arms to hold me when I have a nightmare

A kiss to my cheek to remind me my family is near.

A hopeless dream of a better life

Wishing for so much more

As I wake up to the same lonely sight

Another child cries in his sleep

He reminds me of my own terrifying dreams.

I buckle down on my knee once more

And pray for the same things

I did the night before

A happy home is all I want

And a family just to call my own

I may never get my childhood dreams

I may never walk down a hall to
see a picture of me

But I can dream of a family and pretend they are near

Sometimes this dries my down pouring tears.

NATURE'S WAYS

Amongst many green trees,
There lived a dried sulking tree;
Too fragile…
Now, having only woody branches and no leaves.
But, was the tallest of all that heaves.
No leaves, no shade…
Cynics thought, it would soon fade.

Whilst years and years it stayed,
None cared why it swayed…!

Of remorse or happiness, I don’t know,
But all the time, I see it bow…
The sparrow chirp on its top, the very top!
And I hear the tiny tots telling their tales to the ‘woody’
tree, with a hop and a hop.

Whilst years and years it stayed,
But none cared why it swayed…!

The tallest of all, sans leaves, sans shade,
The chirping wouldn’t let it die in facade.
They perched for a while looking at the setting sun,
And sang till their heartbeats spun.

Whilst years and years it stayed,
Still… none cared why it swayed…!

Now, I ponder why thee, still… happily sway…?!
Alas! I hear the answer…,
“The nature has its own WAY…”

P.S. –
The tree is old…like the Old Man,
Wise but weak…
To all those cryptic stanzas,
the answer lies in the previous line,
That you seek…
 

MILES AWAY

23

One day from miles away a voice came
It just frequently pronounced my name
And suddenly coming towards me was a hand,
Which proposed me to be it’s friend.

Friend,I rushed towards it listening to this word
And so soon two hearts started pleading the same urge
The world seemed completely different with confronted zeal
I know the good and bad times together we dealt.

The miles reduced into a joyful route
Each and every time someone was standing beside my boots.
Today when I look around to find that hand
Trespassing with my shadow nobody stands.

And then comes a vibe thrilling me with fear
At last I recognize the voice i could hear
It comes from miles away soothing me and my tears
It says, you gotta be happy for the world my dear

 What if...! you looked, and I am not here.