Entrapment...

Hopelessly bound
unfettered
by the chains of love's grip
- greatest gift,
fate's cruelest curse.

Wherefore do I weep
at knowing the joy,
the warmth,
at feeling the peace,
the fire.

Wherefore do I weep
unable to complete ,
to be,
unknown the kiss,
the flames.

Wherefore do I weep
at loving not living
seeing not touching
breathing not sharing
holding not loving?

All,
because I, The Fool,
am no more?

All I see is night
blackness, death, and decay
My world turns dark as the blood red sunset is devoured by the hungry night sky

The light that is my life slowly dies as if wounded and left in a cold dark forest to die

The once suffered children look up at me from their graves
the hole in which they were killed by flame
merciless fire like rabid wolves on the tail of a hundred rabbits
the faces are gone
they hold no memory of those that they once identified
they lay there burning in the uncovered grave
unworthy of a funeral

All I see is night
The dark and silent night
The air, filled with the stench of rotting and burning flesh
I look down at the pits in which my people lay
They are dead
I never knew them
yet the memory of them still haunts me decades later

Now I know why the sun has gone
It is because my God has gone
and taken the last bit of beauty with him
All turns dark and I see no more
only feel the evil lurking in the shadows
hovering around me
This evil is not Lucifer prepairing to take me to my doom
I am already in a blazing firey Hell
this evil is that of my captors
the workers of the man who thinks he is God

the one who would take families and babies and elders and children
and rip them apart
burn them in his pits
and never bat an eye

loneliness hangs above me like a demon in the sky
my mind fills with the darkness of night
and my life, becomes lost
and my soul melts away with those children in the fire

even when the suffering ends
my people will leave traces of their pain
of their deaths
of their lives
of their faith

I will remember the time of my own liberation
I will remember the holes that are my eyes
and the lifeless skeleton which is my body
and the emptiness that is my heart

all I see is night
that dark, evil, blood stained night
that night that bacame my life at the time of my capture
Yes, night is all I see
my life which is an eternally silent,
cold,
rancid night
all I see is night

Hell's World

Have you ever wondered how life could be

if the world would not have been in hell

torturing in every country

we are like angels trapped in a well

bloody devils dancing around the fire

watching every angel shouting in pain

the hateful words of the bad rulers

damn those bloody vein

killing, murdering

the famous subject everywhere

the death knells ring, ding dong ding

blood is what they share

the question is about our future

will it be worse than now?

wish the world would change from here

but my question is how?

source: Aminath Shaikha Sobah

Reciting... my Friend

You are friendly, kind and caring
Sensitive, loyal and understanding
Humorous, fun, secure and true
Always there... yes that's you.

Special, accepting, exciting and wise
Truthful and helpful, with honest blue eyes
Confiding, forgiving, cheerful and bright
Yes that's you... not one bit of spite.

You're one of a kind, different from others
Generous, charming, but not one that smothers
Optimistic, thoughtful, happy and game
But not just another... in the long chain.

Appreciative, warm and precious like gold
Our friendship won't tarnish or ever grow old
You'll always be there, I know that is true
I'll always be here... always for you.

Seek Not My Heart...

Oh gentle winds 'neath moonlit skies,
Do not you hear my heartfelt cries?

Below the branches, here about,
Do not you sense my fear and doubt?
Side glistening rivers, sparkling streams,
Do not you hear my woeful screams?

Upon the meadows, touched with dew,
Do not you see my hearts a'skew?
Beneath the thousand twinkling stars,
Do not you feel my jagged scars?

Seek not my mournful heart kind breeze,
For you'll not find it 'mongst these trees.

It's scattered 'cross the moonlit skies,
Accompanied by heartfelt sighs.
It's drifting o're the gentle rain,
A symbol of my silent pain.

It's buried 'neath the meadow fair,
Conjoined with all the sorrow there.
It's lost among the stars this night,
Too far to ease my quiet fright.

No gentle winds, seek not my heart,
For simply ... it has torn apart.

Life without you...

As darkness fell upon me,

Every good memory has flown away.

If this is what my life has meant to be,

I wish there was a better way.

I still remember the times together,

Especially the times I was so happy.

The bad and sad, whenever I remember,

I feel so unlucky.

Every time you make me cry,

I thought whether you cared.

All I want to do is die,

I want my life to be spared.

Do you remember the day you held my hand?

And when you said the three magical words?

It made me feel like I was in wonderland,

We both were like love birds.

How come you now hate me?

No good reason for sure.

I now know how miserable life is to be

Without you, my dear, for sure……

source: Aminath Shaikha Sobah