“It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.”
The Complete Poems
“It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.”
The Complete Poems
“Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.”
“How do you love someone who is broken?
Gently, lay your hands on their soul like a whisper, find those places that are broken. And then love them till the places become cracks and the cracks become thin white scars that they only just barely remember.”
“You don’t have a soul.
You are a soul.
You have a body.”
“Airports see more
Sincere kisses than
Wedding halls.The walls of hospitals
Have heard more
Prayers than
The walls of churches.”
“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted – mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
Second Chance Summer
It’s all a matter of perspective.
We cry about failed relationships and write poetry about bloodstains on our bathroom floors.
But what the blood splatter from that young child in Gaza, who was gunned down in a playground for being Palestinian? ‘Collateral damage’, they murmur with shifting gazes.
And let’s not forget the innocent men and women slaughtered by police for the colour of their skin.
Or the journalists who were decapitated for simply doing their job in informing and protecting the world, once camera reel at a time.
Have some perspective.
Let’s forgive those who’ve wronged us, and fight the institutions that oppress and condemn us, instead of each other.
I’ll sit in the graveyard,
And plant flowers by your stone.
The tears won’t stop, no matter how strong I thought I could be.
I loved you like you were blood, I didn’t know any different until I was older
And even then,
I didn’t feel any different.
You were made of the same blood
As us
And I felt something in me
When you died that day.
I felt my heart crash against a lamp-post
And not even the airbags could save me.
I cried for days, weeks, months.
It’s been a year or so since you died
And I’m counting down the days
Until your next anniversary,
So we can all sit and remember how
Incredible you were.
A man of so many achievements
And accomplishments;
A best friend, loving and loyal.
A father, protective and affectionate.
An uncle, doting and wonderful in every way.
I pray that God will protect you,
His brave angel now.
Your strength and power,
Determination and fighter’s spirit
Will live on in our hearts
Until we meet again.
May God rest your soul
“At the beginning, your beauty shone with rays of glory
love came and set the whole world on fire.”
His angel hid her horns so well,
dressed in white with beautiful dark skin
and an infectious voice.
She was a siren, luring him to his death
with the promise of ever lasting adoration
radiating from the essence of her being.
He wanted more of her,
and just when he got on his knees and begged for her,
she took off her veil and revealed her horns
embracing him wholeheartedly.