The King

I seek 

I step

The bishop takes the king 

I cried 

I wept

This palace is in ruin 

I purge 

I roar

This sultan needs no advisor

I reset

The board

The king takes the rook

I banish appetency

The knight takes all the pawns

I seek

I step

The king removes the queen

There is

No room

For two kings in this city

I seek 

I step

For this vessels sovereignty 

Coccinellidae

Coccinellidae

This water drips
Right off my back
This red compliments
This white and black
I travel the world
With my soul intact
And my goal is that
I find the One
Who created
The wings I flap

Long Distance Relationships (Japanese)

遠距離恋愛

風が落ちた木の葉を抱き寄せて

秋の太陽が私を取り巻く

私の影がこの知ってた道を歩く

忘れないよ．約束だから

この思い出は私の魂の網膜に銘じられた

君のことを呼んでくる

一人でいることが怖いから

写真はこの物語を伝わる

君が私が創造したことないため

でも夜の帳は私の心を縛り上げて

君のことが見えなくなる

金属の鷲の鳴き声が

私たちの愛を叩き壊す

またも一人で起きる

本当だったかもしれない恋

Celestial Banquet

Celestial Banquet

As I float in space
I'm surrounded by
Many moons that orbit
My soul
Each moon moves round
And round and round
I wonder what I did to deserve this

A gift of elegance
This celestial banquet
My thirst quenched
By rivers of honey and milk

A young man dressed in all white approaches
Greets me with blessings and embraces my hand
He takes me away beyond the banquet
To a world in which there is no moon
There is no sun

But light is abundant
The shade of the moon
Replaced with a shade of compassion
The musk that fills the atmosphere here
Is sweeter than any one can imagine

And so this angel of death
Shows me to my home
The eternal abode
I had longed for
"Friend of God!
Please enter your home
And therein you will stay
Beyond time and space"


InshAllah

TB: Trust

Trust

Be it the howling of the wind 

Or the dark cloaked figure that haunts my dreams 

No one can tell me how 

To face my worldly destiny 

I approach the future cautiously 

With the sword of benevolence 

Cutting through the lies and deceit 

To find my way through the web of hypocrisy 

God shines upon me the heavenly beam 

To light the path through the darkness and greed 

To find the one true love I long to seek 

In my heart is where I want it to be. 

Because my heart is made not of silver or gold 

Or flesh that can be pierced by a woman’s lust 

My heart is my sanctuary for all I believe 

This is why it is made up of trust. 

TB: Long Distance Relationships

Long Distance Relationships

As the wind embraced the fallen leaves 

The autumn sun surrounds me 

And my shadow walks the path we once knew 

I won't forget I promise 

Each moment burned into the retina of my soul 

And I call out for you 

for I am afraid of being alone. 

The pictures tell the story 

And prove you were not a part of my imagination 

But the darkness binds my heart 

And I see you no more. 

The roars of the soaring metal eagles 

shatter the love we both shared 

Once again I wake up alone 

A love that could have been...

TB: Silent Killer

Silent Killer

One by one we fall apart 

Shattered souls and broken hearts

The killer shows his face in time

The laughing smile inside your mind

And it’s so sad knowing

That I’m killing me

And it’s so sad knowing

That that’s all I’ll ever be

Cos she won’t come to save me

When I need her next to me

Because I broke her heart and then broke mine

Then I died inside my mind…

TB: Dealing With Schizophrenia

Dealing With Schizophrenia

A part of me sometimes feels
As if there was a part of me missing
And the other part sometimes feels
To cry while my heart is reminiscing
And a part of me feels no emotion
For loneliness and despair
And the other part of me feels so different
As if the first part wasn't there
While a part of me leaves one eye open
The other part prefers one closed
And when a part of me can't take the pressure
The other part seems to know
A part of me is my own best friend
While the other part longs for love
These two parts make me so whole
They go together like turtle doves
And without one part I'd feel as if
I'd faded away silently
Because without two parts I feel as if
There's nobody left but me.

TB: Sepia Tone

ThrowBack: Sepia Tone

Throwback poems are poems that I have written many years ago that I feel need a place somewhere in the ether. 

I sit and watch in silence as the whole world shakes

The sky cracks open and the sun no longer shines

Rivers flow with fire, trees turn to dust

And the wind blows the devils thoughts into your mind

A single red leaf flutters through the sky

And the rain burns away the many sins of men

The clouds draw in close, as lightening tears the moon

The angel of death’s coming but they don’t know when

As the people of the world start to panic and run

I sit there with a smile, my pad and my pen

Watching the world crumble in sepia tone

As I hear the voice whisper “It’s the end, the end”

The end…

The Stream of Consciousness

The Stream of Consciousness 

What is it that drives us?
To emotionally propel through life
At a speed beyond our time
So the winds of Chronos
Batters our faces

Death approaches sooner than later
With hairs of white creeping from the sides
They spiral and tangle within my mind
Wisdom; the key to immortal life

And so I write
Each moment recorded for my heart’s content
The words etched on the tablet of time
Floating through space
Like cold lifeless rocks
These meaningless thoughts
This life is short
But each day ticks away
A part of mankind we can no longer save

Am I brave enough to battle it?
Or just stand aside and watch it?
Shall I try my best to fulfil it?
Or let the soldiers come and kill it?

These words portray
A man inside
A promise made
Through blood and lies
A twisted fate
A broken soul
A hardened heart
A bitter cold
They keep emerging
From below
The depths of knowledge
Best left Unknown
Until they decide to show
Or until I decide to know

Closer

Closer

The street lights
Help my shadow live
But I'm embraced by the light
That the moon gives

For this lonely night shows none
But I
And this shadow of mine

In the dark he disappears
As I walk the world not of men
They stare as I cover my hair
And face
A hood and cloak to hide the light
From the moon embracing

I walk between both worlds
And slip through the realms of time
And space
The oddity of it all
Leaves nothing but
The moon embracing

My mind is torn like an old diary
Pages covered in drops of tears
The hope of love
And a far away land
Closer than
My jugular vein

Closer than
My jugular vein
I remind myself each day
It's closer than
My jugular vein

The Dreamer & The Believer

The Dreamer & The Believer

 A dreamer lays his head to rest

In the last third of the night

A believer lays his head to rest

In prostration towards the light

The dreamer enjoys reverie

The believer searches for the key

To the dream to come true while awake

The dreamer never knows of this mind state

The believer thus opens the door to fate

And his dreams come true while he’s wide awake.

For the believer was once a dreamer

But with open eyes prayed for what he needs

While the dreamer lays his head to rest

And only sees what is in his sleep.   

Soar With Love

Soar With Love

I don’t want to fall in love

But fly with love

Like the falcons that lock talons

And fall to the ground

To experience a moment of sudden death

Human beings are until death do us part

Yet these birds of prey

Fall to death and from there start

Their love as they soar the skies

And this courtship marks the beginning

Of a love that soars and does not fall ever again. 

雨の匂い (English)

The Smell of Rain

I love the way it smells

Before the rain falls from the sky

The birds that circle start to cry

The hands on my watch speed fast through time

In a blink of an eye, my future’s here. 

I try my best to cherish each moment

The songs birds’ song grows fond in my heart

But with ease comes hardship so before the storm

We spend a lot of time enjoying life from the start

But I’ll wait to ride this storm of life

And if I’m patient the future will shine brighter

The blue sky sparkles just like your face

And we cherish each moment, embraced.

Those moments will definitely come in life

So that’s why I love the smell of the rain

They say when it rains the ground around us hardens

In a blink of an eye, my future’s here.

雨の匂い

雨の匂い

雨が降る前の匂いが好きで
森にいる鳥の声が綺麗
僕の時計の針が早すぎて、
あっという間に、僕の未来

その瞬間が大事したかった
鳥の鳴き声が恋しくなった
でも嵐が来る前に
少し楽な時がかなり多かった

でも嵐の後を待つ
がまんしたら未来が明るくなってくる
青空が君の顔のように輝く
一緒に楽な時間を過ごす

その時がきっといつか来るから、
雨が降る前の匂いが好きで
雨降って地固まってくる

あっという間に、僕の未来

The Renaissance

The Renaissance 

Am I really all that different
From what you perceive me to be?
Aren't we all one brotherhood
Connected by the tree?

So why do you look at me
Like I don’t belong beside you
Is it the way I comb my hair?
Or the way that I pray like you

Why do you place a distance
Between the purity of faith
And the way I dress?
For love holds no resistance
For those who gave
Their time for blessings

But you seem so quick to judge me
Without knowing who is beyond this shirt
If you tore out my flesh and bones
You’d see a soul! Broken and hurt

It stings to know that while you still judge
We can never grow closer to the One
For when you equate appearances with piety
A difference appears between girls and nuns

But I will not let you take my faith
I will not let you steal my light
I will not let you laugh at my face
I will not let you take away the brightness within me

For the enemy of me stands beside me
And near me
It’s not the ones who disbelieve
But the ones who stand with me

They stab in the back
With looks and laughs
And are eager to establish
Hypocritical traps

But I can’t judge the movement for the people that are in it
Rather than by what the Messenger says
And by looking at the way that the Messenger lived
I realised that this movement is far from His.


The renaissance begins.
Bring your book and pen.