War

Tell me,
What did you hear?
You seem so lost
in fear.

Listen to me,
Your hands are so cold
and dotted with sweat like
beads of gold.

Tick, tock
It’s the sound of time
rushing by without saying
goodbye.

Pitter, patter
The sound of raindrops
clutter your heart up
in a fog.

Is it the truth that never came
a distant goal a yard away?
Is it a lie that lay its path
Your dreams a nightmare broke in half?

Tell me,
What did you hear?

I heard it all, I wish I heard it none;
The brushing of blades, the clattering of spears.

I heard the footsteps of war drawing near.

Illuminate

I saw the light in your eyes,
I saw the way they shone.
They illuminated the sky,
Like a gemstone.

I heard the breathing in your sleep,
I heard your heart beat for me.
They warmed me up,
Like volcanoes.

I felt the crack in your lips,
I felt the scars on your skin.
They broke my heart,
Endlessly.

I’ll fix your heart with a kiss,
I’ll take your hand in the dark.
You held me when I was broken,
Fate won’t take us apart.

Understanding

Everyone desires to be understood but refuses to understand one another. It’s like how you expect to have a perfect society with everyone doing good and committing no crime but every day you give yourself leeway to sin but you find it unacceptable when people around you don’t do what’s morally right.

We all have too high expectations of everyone else and too low expectation and self discipline on our own. We don’t see the need to push ourselves further because we don’t bother viewing it in someone else’s angle and perspective. We don’t care because it doesn’t directly affect us, but once we become the victims of our own actions inflicted upon by someone else imitating us then we all complain it’s too much.

We complain that in groups there are some people who refuses to do anything when in some cases you are the one who’s not doing anything, because as obvious as it seems not doing anything is always less tiring than doing something, but once you are the one doing something and you see someone else doing exactly what you did when you were doing nothing ignites a raging spark in your mind.

Have we exactly compared ourselves to the people that we hate the most? Do we not realize that we are very similar to those that we dislike, for whatever reasons that may exist? Did they commit a sin to commit your sin? Did they pick up your bad habits and inflict them back onto you?

Maybe I’ll never understand why there is so much hate in this world, and maybe this world will never learn to love truly. Maybe hate is already carved deep into our bones and meant to keep us alive, maybe love is only the bare membrane that protects the explosiveness of hatred cell. I don’t take biology anymore, I don’t care if my description is way off.

It’s always the early mornings that penetrate deep into your skin and shakes off the mask society has come to insist you wear during the day. There are always lingering thoughts you’ll never have answers to.

Say, if you hadn’t chosen a particular decision one day, you wouldn’t be you and the people around wouldn’t be them. The possibilities are infinite. This world is made up of the infinitely many possibilities coming together to form as one.

Yet, we still don’t learn to understand each other.

Don’t Go Far Off

Don’t Go Far Off
by Pablo Neruda

Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because —
because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don’t leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don’t leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you’ll have gone so far
I’ll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?