Seth dream

Once young

2011-04-28T02:25:00.001+03:00

we were young once

alive...

yet we still live!

A dark flicker in a blinding light...

2011-04-18T01:22:00.000+03:00

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, the patch of sunlight in a tumultuous sky, the oasis in the godforsaken desert, the damned cliché in the blockbuster movie. But somehow I don’t reach for it. Somehow I turn around from it and walk the other way, lingering in my endless grey limbo.

Why? Because I am bum lazy ass motherfucker. Is it that simple? Or because writing tends to bare out my soul, my inner self to the dangerous light that will ripe it to shred…

And then out of nothing came something a flicker of darkness that will conquer the light, the spark that drives us all toward something great, and without it we mellow in mediocrity…

But I fear that soon that spark will flutter and die and the white bleaching, blinding light will conquer all… Again….

A Child's laughter!

2010-04-07T00:06:00.001+03:00

A child’s laughter shines

A rainbow of joy

Shut up, his father hisses

A sleeping cat

2008-03-05T10:12:00.000+02:00

A sleeping cat, languishing in sun
A smile touches my face
My heart burns with envy

A majestic ship

2008-01-23T17:22:00.000+02:00

A majestic ship
vainly floating
on a sea of sand

Lost in infinity...

2007-10-02T23:23:00.000+03:00

While the days goes by
I am lost in infinity
searching for an end

It rains in Beirut...

2007-03-05T17:49:00.000+02:00

When clouds gather in the arab world, It rains in Beirut...

-anonymous

No Future

2006-11-21T13:49:00.000+02:00

I live in a country with no future,
just an extended present
and an overwhelming past

Mother nature's savage beauty

2006-11-02T20:33:00.000+02:00

A sufi saying...

2006-10-27T18:15:00.000+03:00

Give me freedom to fly without a shadow,
Give me freedom to sing without an echo,
and to love without leaving traces.

Terribles battles!

2006-09-13T15:03:00.000+03:00

Except for a battle lost, there is nothing so terrible as a battle won!

-David Weber

Hope flickers

2006-08-09T14:05:00.000+03:00

Guttered dreams
Putrefying rubble
Hope flickers still

As opposed to what I wrote a few months ago:

Pristine boulevard
Sparklings facads
War lingers

Moon light

2006-06-20T12:48:00.000+03:00

Under the blinding glare of the sun
The sweet touch of moon light
Is missed

A sad dungeon

2006-06-08T12:54:00.000+03:00

A sad dungeon
Stubbornly closed
Imprisoning my heart

Only pain!

2006-05-27T23:41:00.000+03:00

Beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotions, there is only pain and salvation form it!

-Rise of Endymion

A thousand times

2006-05-20T12:32:00.000+03:00

You live only once,
but die a thousand times…

Hope kills

2006-05-18T19:23:00.000+03:00

Ce qui tue c'est l'espoire
et tandis qu'ils en meurent
combien on voit des gens
qui disent qu'ils en vivent
-Anonyme

And my translation for our english speaking friends...

Hope kills
and while it is slaying them
how many say it is keeeping them
alive

Oh...envy

2006-05-17T01:01:00.000+03:00

A lone wolf
Howling away at the moon
Oh…envy

Do tell me

2006-05-16T22:31:00.000+03:00

Do tell me
O my love of old
Are his lips sweeter than mine
Or his touch softer
O my love of old
Do tell me
Or better yet
Do not

Forever Frozen

2006-05-14T14:16:00.000+03:00

Verdant Elysian meadows
Blossoming with spring roses await
While Bottomless abysses beckon
And arduous mountains call

But I stand here
In this numbing void
In this fabled middle ground
The fulcrum of balance
Floating…

I Close my eyes
Time stands still
And I spend a lifetime
Frozen…
In that moment
In this moment
Forever…

An old tree

2006-05-06T02:25:00.000+03:00

An old tree
Lost its leafs tonight
While spring flowers blossom

Pain and love

2006-05-05T16:35:00.000+03:00

Pain was only the other side of love!

-2nd chronicles of Thomas Convenant

Who waits

2006-05-04T23:35:00.000+03:00

I sometimes feel the urge
To stand on the tallest mountain
And rage against heaven
Shouting: why me
Why me?
But then heaven is but a mirage
A fool’s chimera

I wish I could tear out my heart
And cast it to the wolfs
Oh how I wish I had no heart
Soulless
Devoted of feeling
A monster
Raging, hating, hurting
But all what I do is
Crying, bleeding, and loving still

How do you stop a heart from feeling
How do you pick up the threads of your life
After an eternity of love
How do you go on living
When each and every second
Reminds you of your loss

Time heal they say
And I will forget
But I do want to
It is my last link to my love
I lose that
And our story is truly over
But it is

So I let go
Like that day
When I jumped
Nothing to holding me
But she waited that day
On the ground
And I wonder who waits
Tomorrow, or the day after…

A failed poet

2006-04-30T22:44:00.000+03:00

Poets aren't god
but if there is a god
or anything approaching a god
he's a poet
and a failed one at that

-the fall of Hyperion
by Dan Simmons

A dream

2006-04-25T01:02:00.000+03:00

A persistent dream
Fading away
But forever carved in stone

A play

2006-04-25T01:00:00.000+03:00

A play without a director
Funny yet tragic
Ends tomorrow or the next day

A stranger

2006-04-21T23:54:00.000+03:00

There is a stranger
I know very well
Who lives close, yet so very far

Hammering away

2006-04-19T23:40:00.000+03:00

A sword smith hammering away
Forging his heart in the raging fires
Of his sea of grief

A waterless well

2006-04-12T00:22:00.001+03:00

A waterless well
Dreams of rain
While the world drowns

Nostalgia

2006-04-09T19:42:00.000+03:00

Hazy spring day
Memories awaken
Nostalgia fills me

My catharsis

2006-04-07T00:05:00.000+03:00

A balm to my festering wounds
A guiding shade in my blinding desert
A strait line in my endless mazes

Soothing psalms soar
Memory fades
And my aches melt away

Faster…faster
My catharsis

A purpose when none is left
My fate my own
And my life in my hand for once

None left but me
For all the others are but fading dots

Faster…faster
My catharsis

My mind focused
On a never ending point
Never reached
Never out of reach

Faster…faster
My catharsis

My soothing psalms
The balm of my wounds
My catharsis

Why do you ask, why?

2006-04-06T23:57:00.000+03:00

Why live when you must die
Why love when you must loose
When you must shun and choose

Why live when you must die
Why build when all is dust
And into dust all shall ever be

Why take a chance
When you have all to lose
And nothing to gain

Why seek peace
When all is hate and fire
And death reins supreme

Why do you ask, Why?

Because our day shall come
And on that day gods shall fall

Soaking tiles

2006-04-01T16:30:00.000+03:00

Tears stream
Heart breaks
Yet love, flickers still

Soaking tiles
Wrenched guts
But fiercely clinging to hope

War lingers

2006-03-24T17:11:00.000+02:00

Pristine boulevard
Sparklings facads
War lingers

Golden Heart

2006-03-21T17:06:00.000+02:00

Brown madness of joy
Curley spring leaves
Golden heart

Forbidden fruit
Spring comes
Forever it shall be lost

More Haiku

2006-03-18T14:51:00.000+02:00

A sunny day
Sleep calls
Dreams beckon

Haiku

2006-03-12T20:53:00.000+02:00

A lover’s last embrace
A shooting star
On a clear autumn’s night

A monsoon storm
A tearless man’s tears
A love lost but never forgotten

Farwell my love

2006-03-11T19:50:00.000+02:00

Life is a series of ups and downs
A rollercoaster
Following an unseen cycle

One day all is well
The next, you think that hell might be better
Than this life

But once a feeling, a sentiment sets in
And stays
Then something has gone wrong

I have tried
And have been and will be trying still
But nothing crack your stance

You answer my efforts with silence
With distance
Coldness and a sad smile

I feel torn
But I cannot but feel
The doom that rushes in

The moment to say Farwell
Comes ever closer
snuffing all hope

Soon oh so very soon
You will have to choose
But it seems that you have already chosen

So Farwell my love
I hope your days
Will be as bright as mine are black…

Farwell

Immobile

2006-03-05T01:39:00.000+02:00

I wonder why I stand and let life go by
I am always on the sidelines
Waiting…waiting
For moonlight that will never shine

I look, watch and time goes by
Live damn you! take part
I do sometimes I do

I made progress
The ice coffin has cracked
Yet I wait

I wait till our day comes
And when it comes gods shall fall
And I wait

Time goes by
Deadlines drop dead
And I wait

My siren's song

2005-11-14T12:48:00.000+02:00

As I drove a needle unto my flesh
To mask my mark of shame, my mark of love
I cannot but recall how beautiful life was
And how fucked up it is

A roller coaster, life is
That ends where it starts
Soaring heights and abysmal drops
But it always ends where it starts

I move on, oblivious to what surround me
Half dead, and not alive
Flesh calls, and call it does
A call I heed, a call I shun

Flesh calls to flesh
What a song, a siren's song
I heed its call, driving a knife unto my flesh
To mask my mark of shame, my mark of love
Heeding my siren's song

Falling in love

2005-10-07T16:12:00.000+03:00

Falling in love...

Ever wondered why it is falling in love, not ascending or rising.

Why the negative connotation?

For, in most culture, down is bad/evil, down is where hell, Ghenna or the Land of the dead is. As opposed to up where God, heaven and goodness is…

And this negative connotation taints most languages, to my knowledge it is the same in French ( tomber amoureux ) and Arabic, even though love in most religions is considered sacred or divine…

I have a feeling that this negative connotation stems more from irrational passion connotation's than that of love per say. Maybe it is more about the irrational process of getting in love than love itself…

This negative connotation almost makes the act a sin. Falling in love, falling into sin, into evil ways…

You might say it is a minor detail with no importance. But it is these details that define our language and consequently our reality, our life and how we live it…

I would have said ascending into love….

Lament for a beloved friend

2005-10-01T12:32:00.000+03:00

Goodbye o beloved
Many a morning you woke me up
Many a morning I cursed you
O how I apologize dear friend

Your voice rang in my ears
And I cursed you
But oh I apologize dear friend

Many a day I walked by
Never looking never greeting
O how I apologize dear friend

Free at last you soar
Free from the cage we kept you in
O how I apologize dear friend

Free you were born
Wrenched out of your tree you were
In a cage thrust
But free you died
O how I apologize dear friend

My last offering you shunned
Pained you were
Still you recognized me
But I walked by forgetting our last Farwell
O how I apologize dear friend

How free you soar
How free you dream
How chained I shall ever be
O how I apologize dear friend

Farwell o dear friend
May you soar forever free
In your eternal tree
Farwell o my dear friend
Farwell