Once young

we were young once

alive...

yet we still live!

A dark flicker in a blinding light...

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!

A child’s laughter shines

A rainbow of joy

Shut up, his father hisses

A sleeping cat

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

A majestic ship

A majestic ship
vainly floating
on a sea of sand

Lost in infinity...

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

It rains in Beirut...

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

-anonymous

No Future

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

Mother nature's savage beauty

A sufi saying...

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

Terribles battles!

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

-David Weber

Hope flickers

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

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

A sad dungeon

A sad dungeon
Stubbornly closed
Imprisoning my heart

Only pain!

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

-Rise of Endymion

A thousand times

You live only once,
but die a thousand times…

Hope kills

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

A lone wolf
Howling away at the moon
Oh…envy

Do tell me

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

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…