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Poems17

The Journey

Amongst sages and scholars, saints and loversStudents and servants, martyrs and callersProvidence did afford so opportune a travelThat this tangled quilt so woven may unravelLaden with sin outstripped by only remorseOf how things should have been had I stayed the…
October 9, 2024

Late

From wherest will you find a balm to soothe regretFrom when will you bring back yesterday
October 2, 2024

Arrival

Two things true, when unassuming do ensueWhen thy search for why be overWill sincerity be your portion trueWhen thy faults to look at anotherLeave no occasion, will ensueOpens swiftly humility’s door
October 2, 2024

Betrayal

I looked and lookedAnd yet my heart yearned moreLooking for pleasure greater than beforeSo many faces, so little timeHow my heart races, to make each one mine.Each day my eye feasts anewAs I drink deep the lustful wine.Wherstwile inside soul…
October 2, 2024

Like No Other

How wide one opens the door to his heart, to let another inThus deep does he risk, the dagger be thrust withinBut He who values worthless pebbles as pearls so fineWidens His guard so much more, lest hurt befall this…
October 2, 2024

Fog

A heavy mist blanketed all that lay around me, softly shifting and ephemeralAnd I hurried home amidst the gray haze-In hasty search for clarityI too easily squandered the beauty of the veiled.
October 2, 2024

Faltering Steps

I wandered hither and yonder, faltered whither astrayTill Mercy let me no longer wanderAnd settled my tired feet upon this pure way
October 2, 2024

Long Waits

Leisurely ticks the second hand.Making customary circuits andLazy rounds, within the perimeter of eternity.While bounds, of anticipation set me freeOf time, allowing each moment to be a Meeting mineEach longing sigh, a secret poem thine.
October 2, 2024

Weeds

Sickened by disease; Taken root so deepWhose tentacles seize; My soul’s infinite sweep To every crevice and recess; It’s chilling fingers caressCreeping further still; till I find no restGroping silently in night within, to rid what I detestI find myself…
October 2, 2024

Dreamchaser

Turn where I mayStill engulfed by an emptinessWithout escapeHowever quickly I runIt outpaces meWherever I hideI find, It has outstripped meI loathe that lonelinessThat hallow abyssGnawing away at a soulthat has let go and lies helplessAs if to say: ‘do…
October 2, 2024