the world thru my eyes

once

you asked

if i have seen the world

and what its like

it took some time

for an answer to come

if your world is also mine...

i flew the skies and found clouds aren't soft

that beyond them are not rainbows but

tears that wait for the rain

to paint them blue or run them dry

years i spent climbing that mountain

for that promised land papa talked about

and there found smog, filth and slaves

that their masters left behind

i dove unto the heart of an ocean

and found there too dead corals lie

i've seen some fish feed on their young

because the sun killed the moss last night

i bathed free along the shore for a day

and three nights, bare skin that made

love with its sand, drifting along the debris

that the waves brought and took, as mine

the sun doesn't rise nor set my child

it doesn't melt on a placid lake as we believed

it watches us day and night, amused

of the foolish dreams we make

the stars did not shine for you nor for me

they have their own reason to be

they light our path, true perhaps, remember tho

they shall pass in their time, not ours, not us

i have written a hundred poems

of love, of hope, of dreams

I spat bitter songs of trust and betrayals

I have played with words so many times

not once knowing the stake was I

grey hairs have started to grow

papa says i'm not as pretty no more

the lines you see on my face now

are those i bought from a carefree youth

hear my laughter it is not as loud

they tell my story, mostly those untold

of the many pages my life explored

a few good ones to storm will hold

on nights when i feel brave enough to cry

the tears i shed are not of pain

but remembrances of all i have

missed and kept and loved and failed

dare not shake my hand, i have brittle bones

now, battles that left me frail and weak

are same walls that hold me up

eager and waiting for what's yet to come

tomorrow i shall tell you what world is like

let me rest tonight, let me close my eyes

allow me to..

live that life anew that you remind me of

wake up to a dream i'd like to tell you about