Remorse

When I think of you,
I think of fear
and I think of the terrible unseen
You may appear in disguise one day
and I will not know
I have failed you so many times
yet I persist upon my shortcomings
I am foolishly involved in my mind’s mishaps
My aims are dependent on you
but I make a habit of forgetting you
My future lingers upon your blessings
yet I make a mockery
of what you have bestowed upon me
by committing arrogant deeds
My Lord, forgive me
for I fail so often
I am scared in my own futility
But you have awakened remorse within me
O’ my Lord, now help me do good.

30 June 2007

Tea Party

It was good to speak
about things you have been hiding away
under the table where the teapot stood
fuming up the clouds of its hot tea
Yes it was good to sip through the green tea
and forget about the norms of our sorrows
How divine will it be, to look up at the sky
and see them evaporate
like that green tea of ours
I am sleepless again
brewing up the futile thoughts in my mind
Why do you show me the path
that I could not walk upon?
You play with my foolishness
only to make me wise
You either mock me, or you love me the most
out of all your creation
Yes, I am sleepless again with my weary eyes
that fail to seek past you
and you say “You fail to notice me, Asima”
Do not let me drown within
what does not exist
Oh, but you already have
and I am to devour the wrath of it.

20-June-2007

Untitled

In your voice,
and in your sighs
where it all begins
and ends
Sometimes she wishes
and sometimes she is without hope
Sometimes she is strong
and sometimes she is brought to her knees
Yes, it is in your eyes
and it is in the sound of her silent lips
so precarious
yet so very defined
by the years she has left behind
for the unseen and untold soliloquies of her mind
Yes, it is in the symphonies of your heart
and it is in the whispers of hers (heart)
where it all begins
and ends
a world, a universe, a whole new story
of what you want it to be…
11-June-2007