tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207934392890330912024-02-19T06:48:51.925-08:00Words Apart Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-42612721170277566102017-06-18T16:52:00.001-07:002017-06-18T16:52:55.463-07:00Contain <div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">God protect me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Never allow this containment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">to take over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Envelops me with ease</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Hardened skin and heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">mind dusty </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Never mind these never ending punishments</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">God's plan is God plan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">it won't alter this unbreakable fragility </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Forgo this cell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">the solitary confinement of withdrawal </span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">i'm all too familiar with the symptoms </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Feign this pretend hurt</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">this faux pretence of anger</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">you are to me, what life is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">that is everything, in living</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">and breathing, in you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">i say <i style="font-weight: bold;">alhumdulilah</i> in all these things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">+++</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">burst open these dams,</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">not "damn, i should've"</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">but "i'm glad i did"</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">glad i said i love you when i did</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">when the moment strikes</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">praying God does not close this</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">open handed palm</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">to the close fist of the stubborn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">no coincidence</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">that that very close handed fist</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">embodies the bully</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">the oppressor </span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">if we don't give,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;">then what are we?</span></div>
Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-1905691520999620662017-02-06T17:22:00.002-08:002017-02-06T17:22:29.566-08:00And the Loving You Are The Ocean's Tide<br />
To regulate and purify<br />
Contain, archive<br />
Capacity of the deep blue sea<br />
You Are Unstoppable<br />
and beautifully infinite<br />
Domineering, lest you remind me<br />
Because most forget, you are<br />
most of this world<br />
I Am Forgetfulness<br />
I forget this too<br />
that you are everything<br />
and that the Ocean mourns too<br />
Cannot Contain and Archive<br />
I Am Remembering To Remember<br />
Ocean's breathe out too<br />
suffer scars like the earth<br />
suffering an earthquake<br />
except we cannot see your fractures<br />
You Are The Healing<br />
deep inside you<br />
the historic, the currents<br />
they wade through the vastness<br />
crop up unusually<br />
You And Only You<br />
cover me as the tide does<br />
I watch the beautiful reflection<br />
the dark purple of the Moon<br />
this beautiful night is you & only you<br />
You Are The Surface & The Depth<br />
unimaginable strength<br />
But those fissures<br />
they need attention<br />
and care<br />
and the loving<br />
the loving<br />
the loving.Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-48364451317372118742017-01-29T17:41:00.002-08:002017-01-29T17:44:44.348-08:00if the world ends<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">if the world ends</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the tips of our tongues </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">shaken by this improbable conclusion</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">proclaim this experiment </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a failure</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">if the world ends</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the vast ocean weeps</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">whales despair at humanity's ineptitude </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the fishes scamper to impossible safety</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">before a most unusual end</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">if the world ends</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">man's greed for power</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">supersedes our capacity to exist </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">like lucifer, ego is our downfall</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">yet again, the end of this once paradise </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">if the world ends</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">some laugh in irony </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we destroyed ourselves before the sun did us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they'll say in the final moments</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and some will oppress till the very last</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">if the world ends</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tyrants, big and small, clasp to power</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for one last sip</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">one last bloodied fingerprint </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">on the blood soaked earth</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">++</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even the hopeless, surely, do find hope.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(the Eternal Refuge. </span><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Quran 112:1-2)</span></cite></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is always darkest just before the day dawneth <i>(Thomas Fuller)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></cite>
<cite style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">++</span></cite></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We awoke to the rising sun, that day of all days, raising a fist toward the sky. So as the aspersions were thrown, all was revealed. The Eternal Refuge's wisdom became clear when previously it hadn't. That those who absorbed the falsehoods as truth, those who failed to act had given themselves up. That Allah Was Supreme. That their minuscule power, although God like, was feeble. That although demagogues walked the earth, spoke on the television, wrote columns and lead nations, their power was insignificant. Allah Was Supreme. Allah was with the oppressed, the destitute and the poor. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That the alchemy for the tyrants, the abusers, the evil, was a long and arduous alchemy. That their alchemic process would take millenniums in human time. That, this if, was a when. That when the world does end, Allah reminded the hopeless, that lovers and the loved, that he will be there, is always here and that the Sacred light will inevitably conquer all. </span><br />
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<br />Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-25386672233887600692017-01-22T13:51:00.003-08:002017-01-22T13:51:56.359-08:00broken utopia Twisted bark<br />
in the dispersed woodlands<br />
Disturbing perfect harmony<br />
Tree by Tree<br />
Soothing the troubled mind<br />
in blossoming Spring<br />
or the leafy Autumn<br />
Wooly hats and broken hearts<br />
broken barks<br />
Winter hurts<br />
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intangible future<br />
in the loving present<br />
Disturbing perfect harmony<br />
Day by Day<br />
Can hardly feel you<br />
Lost in this malaise<br />
Hard pavements<br />
and cold shoulders<br />
City curse<br />
Streets is terse<br />
<br />
Dilapidated yesterday<br />
here to taunt my present<br />
Causing ruin in the harmony<br />
Brick by Brick<br />
A Tonne Fallen<br />
on this fragile head<br />
This was utopia.<br />
Now, the crushed ship<br />
Once the dust settles<br />
We'll settle in the Sea<br />
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<br />Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-1401159070780671412016-10-13T10:00:00.002-07:002016-10-13T10:00:47.158-07:00namesake <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">the rhythm of you,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">your beat is revered,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">gives us the blessing of breath,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">the holy air pumped into clay,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">moulded by an unparalleled architect.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">take you for granted,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">at my peril,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">reciting the prayer of protection,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">I hold you close,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">jugular vein closeness. </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">beyond these worlds,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">into the rhythm of the clouds,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">a beat beyond time,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">where love is a mantra</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">repeated from the mouths of angels and man alike. </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">I see us there,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">two souls intertwined,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">forgoing jealousy and anger,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">because all disease and preconceived socialised norms</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">cease to exist. </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">Practising your absence diligently,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">what is life without oxygen?</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">so i feign the rhythm,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">it’s pseudo hum can sustain me for now,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">until your golden presence.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">Like an alchemist,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">the spiritual and the scientific align,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">it’s beats intersect, line by line,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">it’s Sacred chords bounce sporadically,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">as passion does. </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-83665015635563465372016-09-09T03:52:00.001-07:002016-09-09T03:52:11.431-07:00WallsWe build walls<br />
To not communicate<br />
So i don't have to tell you why,<br />
To avoid the root causes<br />
The painful conversations<br />
Don't disturb this land mass<br />
This body of mine<br />
Where oneness is disturbed<br />
<br />
We build walls<br />
Cause we fucking hate the mexicans<br />
And the Palestinians<br />
And those fucking refugees<br />
So they don't rape<br />
Or blow themselves up<br />
This body of mine<br />
Where oneness is destroyed<br />
<br />
We build walls,<br />
And give them camouflaged uniforms,<br />
Play by the (new) clear rules of war<br />
Die valiantly against the enemy,<br />
Die for these walls,<br />
Stand for the flag,<br />
Sing for the anthem,<br />
Where oneness is martyred.Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-30274757109819765502016-09-02T17:29:00.000-07:002016-09-02T17:31:01.040-07:00new world order I<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">when love overawed</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">the brightness took control</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">little deaths ended</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">people passed peacefully</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">the angel of death</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">only took life</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">acting as a passing transient </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">taking souls</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">onto the peaceful infinite </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">leaving others without work</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">new beginnings</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">were borne out of choice</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">and not coercion </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">force was banned</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">allegiance to “the flag” </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">burnt, burnt tips of fingers</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">hoisted the new world </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">the new new world</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">before columbus brought syphallis </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">and colonialism </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">a return to Pangaea </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">in post Pangaea earth</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">on well respected soil</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">cared for ocean</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">where waves don’t spite us</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">misdemeanours swallowed </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">and nature nurtures us </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">and the sun</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">gives us an extra century or two</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">where the galaxy pities our end</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">instead of breathing</span></div>
<br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a sigh of relief</span></div>
Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-67015884840298292482016-07-16T15:10:00.001-07:002016-07-16T15:11:05.777-07:00.<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
It's burning out there,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Where angels whisper,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
"After hardship comes ease,"</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
To those who see the ease,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Hard to come by.</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
The sun smothers us, </div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
But orchids falter,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
And Spring never returns,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
To those leaving one civil war,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
For another. </div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Breathe the dying breeze,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Where the blood has barely dried</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Before it's spilt again,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Where holiness is disavowed </div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
And power is the prime commodity </div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
We're busy with debt, </div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
So apathy turns the screams </div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Into whispers</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
And for the less human,</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Into background noise. </div>
Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-63521856518115423702016-04-01T16:01:00.003-07:002016-04-01T16:01:50.783-07:00footprintsShattered dreams of yesterday,<br />
hung up like portraits<br />
the sordid nightmare of today<br />
painted into memory<br />
<br />
"you need not worry,<br />
paradise does not exist on Earth,"<br />
they say,<br />
little consolation for the burnt<br />
<br />
Scorched on the tips of our tongues,<br />
the heat leaves sound muffled,<br />
we live on spitting out bloodied letters,<br />
words are inconceivable,<br />
<br />
Suffering, they say, makes no sense,<br />
it is not us who architected hell,<br />
But the God you worship,<br />
and the devil in you cultivates it,<br />
<br />
Stories of self harm,<br />
weaved easily into histories,<br />
victors of war on the precipice of power,<br />
intoxicated by its allure,<br />
<br />
"you did this to yourselves,<br />
besides, history is the archaic remains of yesterday"<br />
they say,<br />
little Justice for the burnt,<br />
<br />
Victors bear no responsibility,<br />
in a universe where loss,<br />
is a torch carried by the lost,<br />
using its light where stars emit none,<br />
<br />
+++<br />
<br />
If an atoms weight of hope remains,<br />
light as a feather,<br />
It resides in the love of oneness,<br />
where the footprints leave no trace,<br />
not on earth,<br />
but in the hearts of our fellow man.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-17079735372501863042016-03-26T17:54:00.000-07:002016-03-26T17:54:07.619-07:00<div>
On the best day, the gloom shrouds your light</div>
<div>
Your glare worries and distracts me,</div>
<div>
Even if I don't look up,</div>
<div>
I catch your reflection on Earth,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The troubling paradox of fearing,</div>
<div>
What you admire,</div>
<div>
These struggles you cannot name,</div>
<div>
but observe nonetheless,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Do you disturb the tentative skyline?</div>
<div>
For fear of causing the slightest disturbance,</div>
<div>
Where something far beyond you exists,</div>
<div>
Watching from afar, watching your beautiful resistance, </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
I continue glancing your way,</div>
<div>
Reciting a silent prayer,</div>
<div>
Because the universe betrays you,</div>
<div>
The same fear I have.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Looking at you with affectionate eyes,</div>
<div>
Moonlight's appeal strikes you differently,</div>
<div>
With a power beyond your comprehension,</div>
<div>
Because logic is defied and rational shattered,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Firmly planted, two feet for now,</div>
<div>
But I am pining to fly over,</div>
<div>
One day but not yet,</div>
<div>
because I was told selfish declarations will hurt you,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
And that is not what I need,</div>
<div>
and It is not what you deserve,</div>
<div>
I'll focus on this place for now,</div>
<div>
The place I call home,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Do not think I forgot you,</div>
<div>
Because that is not possible,</div>
<div>
Each day you serve as a reminder,</div>
<div>
of Truth.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
And If I never reach the point,</div>
<div>
of grasping the galaxy,</div>
<div>
Of reaching you</div>
<div>
So your closeness is mine,</div>
<div>
and when I know I won't betray my heart,</div>
<div>
I will embrace the light,</div>
<div>
you provide to me and the world.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-13973921287205939482015-08-31T16:06:00.003-07:002015-08-31T16:08:20.723-07:00.<b><strike>changing the world</strike> breaking the ego</b><br />
<b><br /></b>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Change can be an immeasurably bleak phenomenon for
some. Its phantom haunts even the greatest
as their feats feel wholly inadequate in the face of the kinds of global </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">oppression's</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">that exist. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How do you even ‘defeat’ shadows?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was once told that some selfless acts will benefit
mankind in veiled ways that only appear to the most perceptive eye. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That, the softly sung lullabies of a mother to her
child relaying the stories of Prophets (May Peace and Blessing be upon them
All) can have a seismic affect on the world.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I believe they do and I refuse to believe we can
create a “perfect world.” Not to say I
am a cynic but rather, perfection is beyond our means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To put it bluntly, our limited senses cannot imagine
perfection in all its holistic manifestations.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We can only see, hear, feel, touch and taste. It’s both a blessing and a reminder. A blessing to know the limitlessness of what
can be achieved and a palpable reminder that time cannot be stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We can invent drones and nuclear energy but time
cannot be stopped. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Utopias are dangerous because it is not so much that
the Earth needs to be adorned but rather ourselves. Adorning isn’t an outward act but an inward
act of struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Locked down by the mortgages, loans, jobs, cities,
routines and hustles it’s close to impossible to elevate to any deeper understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So learning becomes a privilege of the super-rich
but when that wealth is </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">subsidized</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> by hedonism it’s impossible to elevate to
any deeper understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deeper understanding isn’t universally taught so it
must be sought. You won’t stumble upon
it on the internet but through encounters with guides. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Righteous guides are not necessarily the ones held
up in glorious and bright lights. Often
they are the ones few look to and are learned in ways we seem to think are
unconventional. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unconventional means of learning are not by products
of institutions but instead are taught in honourable lineages which hold secret
truths. Secret truths are unlocked
through purifying oneself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Purifying oneself is no mean feat. It is a lifelong struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It requires year upon year of polishing the soul. True
combatants and wearied <i>jihadi’s </i>know that
the smallest acts can have the most catastrophic of consequences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So we keep polishing, we keep tidying up the endless
possibilities of flaws we have. We draw
them out to destroy them and keep fighting until the end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some leave this world before they even get a whiff
of the secret truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But this is no tragedy. This is instead, martyrdom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Egotism is not taught in classrooms but is built up,
brick by brick until its wall stands firm to sustained pressure. The subject builds walls around himself to
new heights until anything beyond these walls is blinded to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lessons are learnt through each worldly victory, no
matter how minute. You either receive each
victory as divine ordinance, a sign that your impact on this world is
ordained by something higher, more powerful than you can ever imagine and
requires of you a deep sense of responsibility wherein each action requires
careful consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or you can take it as a sign from a dark place
within, that it is you who grafted to achieve and you who deserves acclaim. That your place should be affirmed in the
pantheon of other great men and women and you should stand on top, proud and
righteous, basking in the celebration of yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The latter has built the walls. The former seeks to constantly destroy
them. Don’t be fooled because every person
is susceptible. Man is weak and when we
think we are least vulnerable, we are often most vulnerable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sight is afforded to those who are engaged in debilitating
the ego because all we can do is weaken it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To say otherwise would be arrogant.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These are just words, and while they might be a
comforting reminder, they are just that, comforting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Comfort is absurd in an unequal world just like words
become absurd when they become meaningless slogans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To quote Paulo Friere, “when a word is deprived of
its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the
world is turned into idle chatter. On
the other hand, if action is emphasised exclusively to the detriment of
reflection, the word is converted into activism. The latter – action for action’s
sake – negates the true praxis and makes dialogue impossible. Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it
be nourished by false words, but only by true words with which men and women
transform the world; to speak a true word is to transform the world.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-28434480066920197302014-07-07T08:58:00.000-07:002014-07-07T09:00:01.035-07:00Freeing Freedom <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Last academic year at the end of March, The SOAS Spoken Word Society teamed up with The Black and Minority Ethnic Network (BME) at The University of Nottingham to organize a poetry tour entitled Freeing Freedom. The tour would have been held at universities across the UK including SOAS but unfortunately it had to be cancelled on short notice due to a dispute with the management of the poet headlining the tour. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
However, our intention as organizers was to entertain and enlighten. We hoped that the tour would be the platform for students to re-evaluate and re-conceptualize a term ingrained in our moral consciousness. We thought we would articulate our thoughts on 'Freedom' in this blog piece and expand on what we meant when we said 'Freeing Freedom.' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Can freedom be emancipated? </span></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Very few words hold the weight that ‘freedom’
holds. In the 21</span><sup style="line-height: 115%;">st</sup><span style="line-height: 115%;"> century,
its </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">emancipatory</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> power and its oppressive potential has liberated and destroyed
nation states. Today it’s been used to
describe largely economic freedoms, the freedom to choose to buy, sell and go
about our daily lives. It has
increasingly become the neoliberal’s choice phrase in the construction of what
constitutes ethics today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When this very narrow, specific type of ethics is
considered something that needs to be universal, problems arise. There tends to be a focus on the literal
unveiling and liberating of communities when our collective veil of moral
legitimacy in the West remains firm. Whether
it’s the ‘</span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">civilizing</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">’ of states in the Global South or the coerced </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">liberalizing</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> of economies, </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">our </i><span style="line-height: 115%;">way is the only way
and </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">The Enlightenment </i><span style="line-height: 115%;">is the ultimate
vindication of these values. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">The very same elite setting the agendas and
discourses of today hold freedom prisoner.
Its emancipation requires a discussion on the concepts, norms and
realities we treasure as universal truths.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">From the </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">Kuffiyeh
</i><span style="line-height: 115%;">to the Bindi, symbols which represent cultural, spiritual or religious
significance are stripped of all meaning and left commodities, reserved only as
decor. We are often left to occupy the
vacuum left by this rationalistic purge and told these remains consummate
modernity. Similarly, appropriation of
language has meant terms like freedom have been rebranded to fit the narrative
of the 21</span><sup style="line-height: 115%;">st</sup><span style="line-height: 115%;"> century </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">globalized</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">But this exchange of ideas is a one way street and
alternative ways of thinking often silenced.
In the face of this continued suppression, it is essential to reclaim
freedom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">Part of this reclamation is in understanding that the
struggle of the <i>self</i> is still
incomplete. If we subscribe to the
binary view of freedom being a battle between good and evil, right and wrong
and the oppressed and the oppressor we often forget the oppressor is the <i>self.
</i>The fear, anger or jealousy in the heart of a human being is often
reflected in the actions of his leader. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">But how does this spiritualism relate to the reality
we face today? A world where global
inequality remains an unquestioned physical reality. A world where Bangladeshi garment factories
collapse for the West to enjoy the latest trends for cheap. The problem comes down to control. The control that money has over us and the
control we have over our <i>self. </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">For these problems, the East’s spiritualism has many
answers to the rationalism of the West.
As Persian poet Sa’adi Shirazi’s beautifully articulates in The Rose
Garden;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">In
deserts, amid shifting sand and drouth,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">Nor
pearl nor shell is manna to the mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">Ah!
what avails, when food and strength are gone,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">The
girdle with its pearls or pebbles strown?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">In the enormous capacity of the dessert, the pearl
means nothing. Money cannot be consumed
yet its consuming capacity puts humanity on its knees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">These messages of sages, scholars and spiritualists
of the East have offer solutions to the global issues we face today. That wisdom and intellect are two separate
things altogether. That if freedom were
a caged bird, we must discover it and let it go rather than put a price on
it. That land is to be roamed rather
than sold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">The persistent habit to measure, weigh and count is
detrimental to freedom. These norms imprison
us. This collective search to measure <i>the other</i> up to our standards is
antithetical to the very beliefs the West espouses. Freedom should be independent of ideology,
agenda and even people. It transcends
these things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In contrast to this Farid Ud Din Attar’s poetry
informs us of the necessity of introspection.
This introspection is echoed in the works of Jalal ud-Din Rumi and Rabia
Al Basri. In their poetry, there is a
clear link between the inner and the outward state of man, the ruled and the
ruler. That self reflection necessitates
greater control over the </span><i style="line-height: 115%;">self</i><span style="line-height: 115%;"> and
ultimately that is all we have control over.
This process of </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">realization</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> is true liberation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">The tendency to quantify comes from the hubristic
inability to accept our limitations.
Figures like Persian poet Sa’adi Shirazi or Farid ud-Din Attar understood
freedom like they understood the universe.
They saw the universe as something that is forever expanding and evolving,
often beyond their own understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In accepting this infinity, these men were </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/cracktracks504/jay-electronica-better-in-tune"><span style="line-height: 115%;">better
in tune with it</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;">, only then did they exercise control
over the <i>self. </i>This is where freedom starts and ends,
evolving and expanding and where it defies all definition. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 115%;">Hadi Abbas and Mohamed-Zain Dada.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-76741811231289197682014-01-26T16:32:00.002-08:002014-01-26T16:32:40.683-08:00The eye of the storm<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Calamity and catastrophe</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
are neighbors</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
but the fictitious kingdom</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
lives on</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Home of the displaced</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
who crave home</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
stand where Moses stood</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
and see it</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
See Hell and Heaven</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
From the transitory kingdom</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Britain’s purgatory</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Lifeless as its Sea</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Inhabitants float</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
on salty wounds</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Strife has been burnt</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
its pulp has stopped beating</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Words of war fall</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
lazily out of mouths</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
and</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
melt</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Raging cogs twist and turn</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
tired eyes observe</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
the scars of ancestors tears</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
are dry now</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
life pursued on knees</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
dusty and arid</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
where men neither</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
build or destroy</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
The struggling</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
seek refuge</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
breathing a sigh en masse</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
its force reverberates</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
The breeze carries nightmares,</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
broken dreams.</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
The blood has dried</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
the living seek an afterlife.</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
Calls to prayer</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
do little to wake</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
those in deep slumber</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
since echoes ceased existing</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
The Levant a myriad of mysticism</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
and martyrs</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
The Holy Land</div>
<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">
and its sacrilegious city.</div>
Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-22155711973485674372013-08-03T20:28:00.000-07:002013-08-03T20:28:02.621-07:00<br />
<br />
juvenile prism<br />
letting light shine through<br />
we hide our emotions in four corners<br />
you'll have to smash my mirrors to see them<br />
<br />
<br />Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-45497614729775800922013-04-28T14:48:00.003-07:002013-04-28T15:14:36.671-07:00Indestructible Consequence memories are like vessels on the ocean<br />
poisoned and floating<br />
sunk for our own good,<br />
buried deep.<br />
<br />
Until time ebbs away<br />
it's ruins<br />
and they rise to the surface<br />
like shattered mirrors<br />
<br />
reflections of once broken lives,<br />
remembered with a sombre silence.<br />
<br />
The hairs on my body stand<br />
as if they too uphold respect<br />
of passing moments<br />
be they beautiful or not<br />
<br />
and I shudder<br />
trying to remove each pin and needle<br />
dug into my skin<br />
like enforced acupuncture<br />
<br />
unbearable heat attacks my pores<br />
I rub salt into the minute passages<br />
eyes closed, I grimace at the pain<br />
<br />
regret taught me that<br />
self-inflicted anguish<br />
is relief.<br />
<br />
So I emerge from shame<br />
like the widow emerging from a pyre,<br />
burning.<br />
<br />
Screaming to the skies at Indestructible Consequence<br />
<br />
As inadequate rays<br />
keeps me cold<br />
and a disappointed sun<br />
watches on.Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-2944200653781124592013-04-22T16:41:00.003-07:002013-04-22T17:18:23.057-07:00Henna TattooI sketched intricate calligraphy<br />
carved unadulterated beauty<br />
into her consciousness<br />
<br />
Lust was palpable<br />
My mark nothing more than fleeting imitation<br />
<br />
it dried,<br />
and through each passing day<br />
its colour grew weaker<br />
its trace more feeble<br />
wilting as quickly as it blossomed<br />
shone momentarily as fast as a shooting star<br />
until it was a shadow of its past glory.<br />
<br />
to be remembered as nothing more than a bittersweet memory<br />
<br />
Until our mind martyrs lovers into<br />
nostalgic day dreams, broadcast<br />
onto the forefront of our every spare thought<br />
assisted by hyperbolic embellishment<br />
<br />
Until the lines of fantasy and reality blur,<br />
With no tattoo left to remind us.<br />
<br />Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-43991493576432805602013-02-11T13:53:00.004-08:002013-02-11T13:53:54.593-08:00<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">acquaintances
are like pit stops on a journey,</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">while
true friendship should be as rare as a purple sunset <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As for
the rest of humanity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">you make
a traveller out of me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-78991891111565421842013-02-11T13:50:00.000-08:002013-02-11T13:50:43.046-08:00Catharsis It soothed my worries,<br />
its drip providing me with a brief reprieve<br />
All the stresses of the world flowed down my cheek<br />
like tears of relief<br />
<br />
The street stars shone, in a scintillating backdrop<br />
I looked to my right, a shop sign read "imagination"<br />
It was too surreal to be true, just in case it was<br />
I staggered home slower to take it all in<br />
<br />
eyes closed and neck arched<br />
I insisted the heavens shower down more,<br />
As my jeans grew heavier<br />
I stood still, wishing the moment would too. <br />
<br />
its swirling patterns were like a flock of birds<br />
searching for warmer plains,<br />
taking care in its landing<br />
easing pain wherever it travels<br />
<br />
This was not the normal, harsh pitter patter,<br />
not concerned with hurting<br />
not the kind the common man has disdain for<br />
Just saintly, soundless drops of hope<br />
<br />
That night I dreamt,<br />
I wanted to rise like puddles under the sun<br />
But the reflection scarred me<br />
I wished to magnanimously watch the world in the clouds<br />
<br />
it dawned on me,<br />
man's erratic nature mirrors the skies misgivings,<br />
acid rain eroded into the Earths crust<br />
until I changed my core<br />
<br />
I awoke knowing, my state and weather were one<br />
the choices I made determined whether,<br />
I sailed softly back home filled with love,<br />
Or hit the ground fuelled with hatred.<br />
<br />
"<i>The Idea that moisture, which has risen from the ocean, resided in a cloud and then consolidated itself into a raindrop will return to the ocean, where it may lose itself completely to the immense waters. This was most mystics hoped for: a return to the original unity. To become one with the primordial sea." </i><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-66602366122766249252013-02-04T15:42:00.002-08:002013-02-04T15:42:33.835-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">And life it is life</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">The sun will not always survive</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">The sky does not suffice</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">I tangled my embrace to some sky</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">Having clouds lost in their own cry</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">And moved by day</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">With all left in stagnant stay</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">The grounds smashed in break </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">In beats still awake</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><br />And me? You know me<br />We all saw what we see<br />Lost in moments by the air<br />Shadows embrace me in their care<br />And in moments I was there<br />Alive<br /><br />Iced in the silence of many words<br />That’s me<br />For now the fear will suffice<br />No thanks be to their sacrifice<br />Just for a gone remain<br />In a depth to scar or stain<br /><br />Your words fall heavy and raise water<br />The water falls to its own slaughter<br />Let words fall and be gone</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><br /></span>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">By Walaa Quisay</span>Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-37263414810503541752013-01-22T16:33:00.002-08:002013-01-22T16:37:51.760-08:00why do trees exist? Laid bare like skeletons with non-existent closets,<br />
bony structures of wood,<br />
<br />
exposed, without cover<br />
branches stretch over each other<br />
shielding each other like lovers<br />
<br />
their secrets scattered on empty streets,<br />
yellow from exhaustion,<br />
brown from exuberance,<br />
all shades of truth on display<br />
<br />
before they're whisked away by the wind<br />
into other dimensions<br />
because truth is the battery of the breeze<br />
<br />
Leaving the tree to grow truth once again<br />
Carry the burden once more,<br />
and shed it all againOptimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-47409752217804905902012-09-04T15:23:00.001-07:002012-09-04T15:49:15.136-07:00... <br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A soft chilly breeze awoke the commuters,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deep depressed sighs exhaled,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">a melancholy air
pierced the platform,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And a deathly silence followed it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s when I heard her perpetual exuberance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Reciprocally humming to the tune of the wind, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her voice tiptoed to a whisper above the divine instrumental,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She was clairvoyant in her gentle, almost
sentimental ethereal connection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A week passed, unable to catch a glimpse, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">my ears
remain cognizant, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I catch a glimpse of her speaking, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">her mouth moving
in the reflection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her brown locks hid her appearance, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My eyes distracted by her expressions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">as if she was running interference. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I hear her smile and my ears redden,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An enchanting noise exudes from her, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I concluded that it was the epitome of joy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her words were scented with a raw, delectable
sweetness, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I absorbed her conversation like a bee takes to
honey. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Avid, aware and eager to hear each carefully
constructed answer,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Captivated, I sat pensive on the train. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My thoughts danced to her sound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her stance friendly but body-language signalled she
wasn’t to be approached,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Inevitably, people tried like moths drawn to a
flame. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The nadir of society's aesthetic restrictions, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">she
was difficult to find.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So I followed her shadow, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">infatuated with the beauty
of her mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-55485681570705882992012-08-26T19:13:00.001-07:002012-08-26T19:13:47.497-07:00<b>The junkie and the banker</b><br />
<br />
<br />
Waiting till the intoxication subsides,<br />
drunk slurs aside, each tear was a symbol of a salty sigh. <br />
Each needle was a bitter sweet cry,<br />
help, was the call, wallowing at the sight of her fall,<br />
But she was too high to care<br />
<br />
Pain needed to be blurred.<br />
She wanted to make life a smoke screen.<br />
Her teeth gnawed at the prospect of past,<br />
Present shattered by mental scars.<br />
she gasped for divine intervention<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Staring upwards, neck craned<br />
<br />
<br />
53rd floor, looking down, "I'm above you"<br />
In more ways than one he pondered.<br />
Smirking at the hollow reflection,<br />
Smiles were <i>always</i> a smoke-screen,<br />
<br />
But something irked his suave demeanour,<br />
Injected in his veins was a competitive edge,<br />
A mission to never be below another,<br />
vie for the top even if you must crush your brother,<br />
<br />
Today he hoped for the final promotion,<br />
<br />
His blood began to boil at the sight of rejection. <br />
<br />
It all became too much, the toil, the saturated spoils, the infatuations satiated and the royal self- servancy. <br />
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.96666717529297px;">He took that deliciously degenerate aphrodisiac for the last time and Died</span><br />
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.96666717529297px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.96666717529297px;">Crack, cocaine or crystal meth wasn't the cause, it was Pride</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Self-Pity, Self Importance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Pills and Position</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">See beyond the suit,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">See beyond the ragged clothes.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"The intoxication of headlessness and arrogance takes longer to regain consciousness from than the intoxication of wines." Imam Ali</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Mohamed-Zain Dada</span></i><br />
<br />
<br />Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-38059348950975612512012-05-15T18:16:00.000-07:002012-05-16T04:20:35.549-07:00Society's Show TrialNo words can ever be undone,<br />
No pitches high or low can ever be unsung<br />
and Her words stung<br />
Like a bee, I was left for dead caressing my very being.<br />
<br />
The Chinese whispers first pierced the peripheries of my ears<br />
It preyed upon my most guilty fears<br />
Solemn in the knowledge that I was better<br />
I hailed the fictional public stoning and I joined in the thunderous applause<br />
But when it was all said and done I could not pinpoint the cause.<br />
<br />
I scoured the contours of my mind's landscape<br />
For reasoning to offer my rage some escape<br />
Earth shattering insecurities enveloped me instead<br />
I was at sea, drowning, left for dead caressing my being<br />
<br />
At first, I could not believe what I was seeing<br />
The verdict would be guilty in my court of hate,<br />
I blurred the lines of slander and libel,<br />
scriptures and bible taken out of context<br />
To prove to myself that this was the case<br />
<br />
When the winds of change ended its reign on man,<br />
I begun searching for the truth amongst the greys<br />
the silent hums, hues and tried to put together dismembered clues.<br />
I was puzzled, left for dead caressing my very being,<br />
<br />
"Your reputation precedes you," - Her last words<br />
I mused "Your judgement proceeds the One."<br />
I took no bother and felt free.<br />
because judgement had been passed<br />
and reputations had indeed been destroyed<br />
What concerned me the most, was the judgement threatening my soul.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-29054775014537429162012-03-26T18:09:00.004-07:002012-03-27T06:40:34.615-07:00The Unseen BruisesThe Unseen Bruises<br />
<div><br />
</div><div>Today's cloudless blue sky hid her pain,</div><div>she displayed a sunny disposition but her eyes hid the rain,</div><div>Pathetic fallacy is rendered meaningless.<br />
<br />
<br />
Demeaning stares, but she triumphantly smiles to hide the bleakness,<br />
Not wanting to depict her emotion - a sign of weakness,<br />
A hollow victory nonetheless.<br />
<br />
Emotional blackmail kept her at bay,<br />
"Beggars can't be Choosers" is what they used to say,<br />
So she's Waking up to an abyss.<br />
<br />
<br />
There was a life-scarring storm before an everlasting calm,<br />
Day-dreams brought about thoughts of self-harm,<br />
Sharp words & internal bleeding.<br />
<br />
The Sleeping beauty tormented by her dreams,<br />
Nightmares trapped her intermittent screams,<br />
Even Escapism offered her no exit.<br />
<br />
Pregnancy was her respite,<br />
A short prelude to the rest biting<br />
Back to emotional agony.<br />
<br />
The blessing of a new life,<br />
The metamorphosis from wife to mother,<br />
But the Butterflies colour was temporary.<br />
<br />
The first adopted the wrong genes, showing her disdain,<br />
Confused by the betrayal, she struggled to stay sane,<br />
Torn apart to shreds but not one bruise.<br />
<br />
She craved the silver lining to her cloud,<br />
surrounded by a crowd but she never felt more alone,<br />
some suffer in silence, some suffer out-loud.<br />
<br />
Suffering patiently hoping for an end.<br />
Enough was enough. Too tired to Pretend,<br />
<br />
</div><div>The Naked eye simply saw the body,</div><div>"No bruises" - perplexed onlookers pondered.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The Post Mortem never detected her broken soul.</div><div><br />
</div>Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220793439289033091.post-82175366457265055502012-03-12T18:06:00.001-07:002012-03-12T18:07:58.130-07:00Me, My Ego and IYou pierce the esteemed I. <br />
With your disapproving gaze<br />
You damage my insecurity proof vest<br />
and leave me torturing myself in various ways.<br />
<br />
<br />
But I'm still in awe of You.<br />
My sycophantic rants should not stress you,<br />
don't think my self-hating speak is formed to berate you<br />
I simply seek an outlet for Us. <br />
<br />
<br />
Some seek betterment,<br />
but you simply think you're better than, me.<br />
Why assume a higher position?<br />
Leaving me on the death bed seeking a spiritual physician?<br />
<br />
You always seem to build yourself up<br />
sky-high, you've probably seen the stars<br />
but not the space,<br />
(a)voiding the fact that you're obsessed with Uranus<br />
<br />
You shrug at the lack of light<br />
but the birds eye view you occupy<br />
gave you the lofty perspectives of the grim night<br />
And what is the truth to a brilliant lie?<br />
<br />
nothing, You are<br />
even dwarfing yourself,<br />
even Self is astounded by the fact<br />
that you scarcely see nothing else<br />
<br />
The inner me wants more<br />
but your insatiable desire<br />
makes me think "What For?"<br />
I choose victory in perpetual war<br />
<br />
I almost made peace with me<br />
I hope The One witnesses this,<br />
but You convinced me This was bliss,<br />
and I'm left bewildered with you.<br />
<br />
As I look in the reflection<br />
The warts of my soul are evident<br />
my gnostic body suffers infection<br />
I look at you and all I see is arrogant decadence<br />
<br />
This mustn't be you<br />
This can't be me.<br />
But as a great poet once said:<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">"Between the mirror and the heart</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">is this single difference:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">the heart conceals secrets,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">while the mirror does not."</span>Optimisticrevolutionaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522658003328150697noreply@blogger.com2