If it wasn't for the likes of you

If it wasn't for the likes of you

Lovely thoughts caress my heart
As i recall the one about you
A thought so vivid, I would tear apart
And I am sure the world would too

About love, how might i begin,
As I was certain of its death,
And speechless I lay therein,
Trying to catch my breath

I pay no heed to my lonesome years,
Which yearned for someone like you
I count not anymore my withered tears,
Which all droughts wished they knew,

And feel I, always, regret and remorse
That if only this happiness was forever
And that you were its eternal source
And now I will write, and no word shall sever

For if the seas were like paper to pen,
And oceans, books wherein i may write at ease
Then marvel at my words oh men,
That no ocean or sea could ever endure
And if this love be like a fatal disease
Then i have truly died and there is no cure.

I am that fountain of love,
And you are its gushing water,
I am that tranquil dove,
And you are what lets it fly further

And the words are endless you see,
But what the soul aspires is true
And no second would i ever be,
If it wasn't for the likes of you

4/14/2002
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One of my earliest poems (surviving poems hahah, one i realy worked hard on..lol at that time it was a feat)

Stranger

Would you wait for me
even as time forgets my name,
would you forget me in time,
just the same,
would you look at me as a distant stranger
you once knew, after all we've been through,
what would you?

Another World

In another world, where our two fates meet,
Our hearts, together beat, in another world,
Where I am forever yours and you mine
Our dreams, submerged in infinite time
Waking up to your love, in a world
Where our two horizons share the same Sun,
And the Moon, brilliant, together as one
I wait, by the orchard trees,
Fingers twiddling righteous beads,
Whispering devout deeds,
Remembering your name,
Waiting for the day we meet
In Eden,
Where our hearts, together, beat
again.

On Friends

"Friends are a single soul divided between different bodies."~Imam Ali (Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2059)

"Souls are of different kinds. Those that resemble each other are in harmony, and people are more attracted towards those they resemble."~Imam Ali (Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 92)

(watch this space..more to be added)

Autumn Leaves

leaves swaying as they fall,
from gallant trees that still stand tall,
colouring the earth with their presence,
steadily nourishing its very essence,
the array of life sustained through death,
i marvel at your world,
Oh lord
how glorious your ways,
still catching my breath as i gaze,
counting my fleeting days,
teach me to love, live, and die,
in your name,
for all else pales
yes all else pales,
and lays no claim

Voice of Time

you loved me but now the tide subsided
was once a soul you adored and confided
what happens to the voice of time,
as it whispers its solemn secrets
past my senile ears,

saying cherish the ones you love
for I will take them away,
and love the ones He treasures
for it is they who I cannot slay,

everything in time will pass,
you were not meant to stay,
and never say love's sacred words,
if they were not meant forever,

for love is not love, truly, if in time,
it too shall pass and severe,

listen to the murmurs of your heart
tis a language known to all,
but know no sooner do you ignore its voice
the louder it shall call,

louder and louder,

till its listener hears no longer,
deaf, to love and life, dead
even as the voice of truth grows stronger.
deaf, to love and life.