Blacks & Whites of Poetry
By Rayan Ali
Copyright 2013 Rayan Ali
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Table of Contents
A Place Like Home
A Soul Drowned
A World In The Sky
Alone
And It Said It All
Behind The Scenes
Blind Eyes That See Everything
Close To The End
Dandelions In The Sky
Deep Down Inside
Deep Within
Falling Down
Free Of Life
Freedom
Hand Full Of Wishes
History of a Pandemonium
Hit The Sky
I Need You
Ingredients Of Immortal Thoughts
Light In The Dark
Neon Lights
No One
Not With This Wind
Nothing From Something
Now And Then
Omnipotence
One Love, Alot Of Pain
Protecting The Invisible
Puzzle Of Life
Rock In A River
Rust In The Trees
Seconds To Centuries
Seen From The Distance
She's The One
Sitting By The Fire
Sounds In The Setting Sun
The Irony
The Lost One
The Magic Machine
The Sons Of Fate
The Time Of Times
Time Is A Treasure
Un-Defined
Un-Finished Dreams
Un-Fold
Went Away
Words Of A Free Wonderer
A Place Like Home
Wondering in the lonely streets
Speaking in the strange crowd
Roaming in the empty spaces
Watching and hearing the world
As it moves-on in the rush
Remembering the times when
One rested in the warmth
Of the peaceful surroundings
And living together under
One roof and behind four walls.
But outside of those four walls
It feels like being crushed
Between the walls of loneliness
And being soaked in the rain
Outside that one roof.
Searching for a place to lie down
With a heavy heart that
No longer feels anything
And looking hard into other’s eyes
To recognize if they are our own.
But whatever we do
Or wherever we go
Whatever we say
Or whatever we ask
A place like home
We will never find.
A Soul Drowned
Like a dim star miles away
Never seen by the eye that lingers around it,
Like a whisper of wind to the hazy clouds above
Whose echo is lost in the noisy thunder prevailing,
Like the translucent, caramel rays of dawn
That never reach the dark pathless woods,
A soul dies away, undiscovered.
Like words full of meaning beyond their existence
Yet never to the heart do they reach,
Like tears that fall from the eyes of Sorrow
But are seen by none other than the Eye of Ignorance,
Like the smiles that shine truly from the heart
Though are always left in the depths of gloom to perish,
A soul dies away, aimlessly.
Like a thought full of aim and purpose
That never saw the light of day,
Like a consciousness too alive to forget
Yet becomes unconsciousness without being remembered,
Like an image too erect in the magic of the Mind
Yet shatters without the recognizance of Reality,
A soul dies away, unrecognized.
Like a hope with promise but never fulfilled,
Like a moment of triumph but never accomplished.
Like a heart full of love but never beats,
Like a dream always alive but never born,
And like a life with aspects but at a loss of purpose,
A soul dies away, with all its shine covered by the Veil of Death.
A World In The Sky
Und the words which
Lie in the deep hollows
Bring me back the moments
Which were gone by the time
Erase the hatred from every heart
That swept away all the memories
Sing the song with the wind
That hummes in the sleepy shadows
Step on the mountains in the cold breeze
Hear the heavens call your name
Wait for the angels to fly you away
In a place to think alone
Rush with the sound of the wind
And the glow of the light from above
Close to the flames, rising from the fire
A fire that burns so slow
You can stop by the hour
But the world slips away
Beneath your fingers.
Alone
The wind will blow away all your smiles
The rain will fall heavily on you
Like some heavy pain
The dark clouds will spread over you
Leaving you with no sign of light.
The rocks will crush
Your each and every part
And all roads will be closed before you
And every passage will be blocked for you
Leaving no corner for you to go.
Your every mistake will return and haunt you
Hitting you hard till
Your heart aches
And you mind is messed-up.
And your soul broken into pieces.
The moon and stars will turn away from you
Giving you no light to make your way back home
And the sky would seem nothing more than just a
Sheet laid above you
And all that you had will
Be taken away from you
Leaving you with just a
Lonely life to live upon..
And thus, you will be left alone.
And It Said It All
Words can never express feelings
Neither can a look on one’s face
The ways we’ve always walked upon
Feel like the ones of our own
And the ones closest to us
Sometimes are there but
Just to fade away
Our thoughts combine with those
Blurry questions roaming in our mind
Our dreams and desires break down
From that one chain they clung to
They may say they need us
But their dark side is which
We may never see
Tears fall on the fire
Blazing from our hearts
And the ever-lasting light
That bounces into our eyes
We loose the key to the cage
In which our soul is hidden
Which may not make us more
Capable of anything we’ve already gained
One light breathe of burden
We feel on our skin
And imag
ine the dead speaking
The visions of unspeakable words
And the words of fear
But when no one could speak
Our lives said it all.
Behind The Scenes
We expect the unexpected
We hope for the better
Or more than what we have
We concentrate on the lame
We aim for the greed
And in the end, we become
The enemies of our selves.
We want for the deepest ocean
We see through the broken glass
We wonder in the darkest minds
We rely on the foulest among us
We walk on the path
That is shown to us
And at the last, we get lost.
We desire more than we could afford
We want more than we need
We push our inner self out
We dream above our rights
We hope for dawn, when it’s light
We seek for wrong, but not right
And when we do realize our foolishness
We live upon misery, but not on life.
But amongst some of us
There may exist more fearless
And rather the ones to step out
But not step in and hide their selves
Because heart and soul
We all are built for life
Thus, this is the real us
‘Behind the scenes’.
Blind Eyes That See Everything
On a bitter, misty night,
The bright moon lying on the sheet
Laid by the stars all over
The salty skies,
With the wind playing a chorus
Of silence in the orchestra
Of the dead, gloomy darkness
That was once filled with
The audience of light;
There walked upon the road
A lonely old man.
His soul, crumbling from
Each and every nook and cranny.
His body, wretched due to the
Discomfort the world gave him.
His mind haunted by the
Strangest of thoughts.
His heart, as weak as a newborn.
Veins that were clearly visible
Lurked underneath his insipid skin.
Words that longed so ardently to be spoken even once
Lurched upon one another upon his lips.
Though he could not see,
Yet his eyes still saw
What no one else did.
Somewhere in those blind corners,
There rested a bright glimmer of ‘hope’,
Buried in a corner of his eyes
When they closed, fast asleep and
Coming out every time they awoke
And through this glimmer of ‘hope’,
Shinning every time in his gloomy eyes,
He saw what no one else did.
So with this ‘peculiarity’ of his,
As the old man called it so,
He came all the way
To that desolated road which lay in a
Land called ‘No Man’s Land’,
From a far off place
Where misery had kicked him away
For all the pain it gave him
Was of no use.
Like a passenger
With his way lost,
Someone un-identified
The old man kept walking
With feet that tore
With pain at every step
On an un-known path,
With an un-known ending
And an un-known purpose.
Still lost in his own
Forlorn thoughts and