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Do Not Speak
I spent a whole afternoon
Roaming about the library
Just to catch a glimpse
Of your beautiful face engrossed in some book.
Oh, how I wanted to tell you how I feel
Right there and then
Yet I waited.
I followed you around the next day too
Hoping this time you'd notice me
How I'd introduce myself
Coyly pass off a compliment or two
About your smile.
But alas, you seemed to like the novel more than reality
And so I waited.
It was raining the first time we met
You hadn't come
Disappointed, I went inside
To pass the time and read what you were reading
But as I sat down, you came too
And sat beside me; your eyes sparkling
Reminiscing
As they noticed the book in my hands.
And though the 'Do Not Speak' sign hung prominently behind you
Our shared silence was certainly louder than any words.
Life
"Every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities."
As I watch the sun rise
And effortlessly paint the endless sky
While the blackness of the night is swallowed by the horizon
I can't help but wonder
This is what life is meant to be.
When I stand under the rain drops
The cold winds numbing my body
Making me forget my wounds and my scars
I can't help but wonder
This is what life is meant to be.
Everytime I look at you
Laughing with your mouth wide open
Making the world brighter one smile at a time
I can't help but wonder
You're what life is meant to be.
Ghosts
I see them everywhere I look
Ghosts of people
People I've loved
People I've lost
People I've become
Hell, even people I wish I could be
For every decision I make,
Two new ghosts emerge
Something I would've been had I done more wrong instead of right
Or right instead of wrong
All these ghosts define me
My past, my present, my future
That is why I know I'll never be myself
I can't be myself
I will always only be a ghost
Afraid of coming into the light.
Love
Have I ever been in love?
Possibly.
I have been in love with the sky for as long as I can remember
With the clouds traversing its surface
Changing shapes
And colors
To
Echo
My
Mood.
I have been in love with the great oak in my backyard
With its golden bark and leaves that fall in autumn,
Green and red and yellow and brown
And all the gradients of the spectrum
My
Very own
Rainbow.
I fall in love with the Sun
When it rises, everyday,
Turning the heavens crimson
And when it sets
Ruining them dull
Daily
Routinely
Just like me.
But have I ever been in love with a person?
Never.
For they rarely change colors or forms
Seldom cause downpours or storms
Never shed themselves - not to even grow.
And I cannot love stagnation, you should know.
Darkness
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." - Francis Bacon
When I was a child, I was afraid of the dark;
For the dark was an epitome of everything unbeknownst to me,
And I feared what I did not know.
When my small fingers found their way to the light switch
And the shadows were eliminated in brightness
Is when I felt relief, for then I recognized everything - I was at home.
Now that I've grown up,
I'm no longer scared of the darkness.
Not because I know everything now,
But because I've learnt to be afraid of what I already do.
Tomorrow
I'll rise tomorrow
When the sun is out and the world is up
When the wind does sway and the birds do chirp
That is when I'll rise:
I'll rise tomorrow
Today may be lost
And broken and gone
Success may have eluded me
And I may not have won
But Life has a memory so slight
And I will have a clean slate after this night
That is when I'll rise:
I'll rise tomorrow
So remember this, then,
That I will not stop
No matter the times
It takes to reach the top
For there will always be a Today, and an opportunity I failed
And always a Yesterday away from me that sailed
But for every Now, there will be an After
And the abundance of Tomorrows is infinitely larger
That is when I'll rise:
I'll rise tomorrow.