The Room (II)

We got curtains and latches,
And locked ourselves inside;
We played our music
And the lights were all dim and warm;
We got high in each others arms -
A high that dreams are made of,
As I sat on a stool in the corner.
Everything was perfect -
The towels neatly folded, tucked away in the closet,
The tea-cups neatly arranged above the kitchen sink,
The bed-covers laid with all the creases ironed out,
There was nothing before us, and nothing after.
Everything else was either forgiven or justified;
I was on a mountain-top,
And the valley around was beautiful -
This was the promised land
That I had trudged towards for ages,
And I could sigh in peace at the beauty of it all.

You had awoken before me I guess,
For when I woke up,
With 50 strands of grey hair and a missing tooth,
I caught you staring out the window,
With an expressionless face lost in thought,
At a swirling past you hadn't left behind,
As it's waves lashed against the window-pane,
Knocking against your head until you let them in.
They were inside - in our room,
Quietly taking everything apart.
The smile that had masked your mind was gone
And the words were now only in your head,
Outside-a stormy silence.

They came and pillaged, bombed and raided,
And by the time I was in my senses,
They had melted the pictures and stained the walls,
Made fire-wood out of the floor,
Smashed the tables and pulled down the shelves,
The kitchen sink was broken and the bookshelf on fire.
And in all the mess, you had walked out,
And all that was left was either burnt or broken -
Remains of a dream we had dreamt together,
A dream I was still dreaming alone,
And a little note by the doorknob said,
"Sorry for the mess, but I did love you truly"

Hard Way to Heaven

I dunno I dunno
Where she go where she go
I dunno where she go all alone
I dunno I dunno
Who she see in the dark
I dunno who she be with all night long

Well, there's a hard way to heaven but I know that she wana have fun (X3)

Dawn is breaking and she see the light
She like it when the stars are bright
All she give me is a smile that tell me I should hold on
All she give me is a smile that tell me I should hold on

She gonna get over him soon now (X2)

I dunno I dunno
When the trouble gonna go
I dunno why she never see me cry
I dunno I dunno when she comin home again
I dunno how she gonna know the way

Well, there's a hard way to heaven but I know that she wana have fun (X4)

Loving You Comes Easy

In the night she said
Loving you comes easy coz
I see you when I'm 

Crying on my pillow

In the cold, she said
Loving you comes easy coz
I'll love you to the ashes

Of these flames

In the rain she said
Loving you comes easy coz
I see your face in the 

Raindrops on my window

And when the sun comes out
We can leave our worries out to dry
And you'll always find me

Hanging by your side

But it all came tumbling down
All the walls came crumbling 

Without a sound
And the city that we built 

With our dreams and our words
Was nowhere to be found...

Yeah in the night, I said
Loving you comes easy coz
You guide me through these
Chasms deep and shallow 

And in the cold, I said
Loving you comes easy coz
You're a fire burning

Right here by my side

And in the rain, I said
Loving you comes easy coz
There's nowhere else 

I'd rather be tomorrow

And when the sun came out
You were like the promised rainbow
And I had no plans

To see you fade away 

Oh it all came tumbling down
All the walls came crumbling 

Without a sound
And the city that we built 

With our dreams and our words
Was nowhere to be found...

Now in the night she says
Loving him comes easy coz
She sees him when she's 

Crying on her pillow

As in the cold I lie, off-time
Without her heartbeat

As I tap my feet

To the tune these gods they play 

And in the rain I lie
Searching for the answers
In the droplets flowing 

Down that silly window

And when the sun comes out

The warmth removes the shadows

But the light reveals

The emptiness inside

Yeah it all came tumbling down
All the walls came crumbling 

Without a sound
And the city that we built 

With our dreams and our words
Was nowhere to be found...

This Heart

This heart has many scars
So my love does not fear heartbreaks;
Not as much as it used to,
For it has been bruised and punctured,
Pierced and cracked into several pieces
And joined again with borrowed glue
Several times before, and has yet
Managed to trudge along with a smile.
This heart longs for you
Not with the confidence of youth,
But with the despondence of an aged wreck,
Clinging on to the last straw of hope
Offered to it by the kindness of your soul.

You undressed it with the calmness of your words
And then pierced it with a silence so shrill
That it cracked and shattered me
Into a million pieces that I am now
Picking up and framing into this heart again -
Not because I want to love again - maybe I can't,
But because I have to live on
With everything else around me,
Perfect as it is, though a bit like
A rooster without his crown.
And without you, this heart is all I have to live with.
I may have lost you,
but to have lost you like this is a shame,
Like a man who set out to conquer the world
With every weapon in his armour,
Only to return home embarrassed,
Defeated because his pants were torn.

Another Day

Hoping and dreaming

Of a sunbathed horizon,

The dreams that we cherished will surely survive,

For love will surely find another way.

Hoping and dreaming on and on I get

Carried away by your dreamy eyes,

Your head on my arm and our lazy sighs;

Carried away by the mysteries we see;

Carried away by the cheerful smile,

The shrug of the shoulders when you can stay a while;

Carried away when you're lying next to me...

But there's a storm that keeps taking us apart,

And I shiver in the cold, in the rain, the dark,

Until I hear your voice and it makes me alright.

Yeah it brings me peace and tells me love is worth the fight...

Silence and patience

And a hopeful tomorrow

Were all that we needed

Through the rain and sunshine,

But soon we have to walk another way;

And how we wish we had another day.

Hoping and dreaming on and on I get

Carried away when you hold my hand,

As we dream away and we make our plans;

Carried away though you'll soon be gone away;

Carried away as I hold you tight,

Watch you sleep and feel you breathe at night;

Carried away that you'll be back another day...

But there's a storm that keeps taking us apart,

And I shiver in the cold, in the rain, the dark,

Until I hear your voice and it makes me alright.

Yeah it brings me peace and tells me love is worth the fight...

An Ode to Poetry

Your presence fills me with purpose;
Your mere touch the strongest embrace,
As you trapeze between the ages,
Vanishing and reappearing, ageless;
Each time more beautiful than before,
Fertilizing my thoughts in your bosom,
Knitting my words with your restless arms.
Formless beauty I cannot fathom,
Except when you are within,
My reins between your thighs;
A wandering oasis feeding those who desire, imagine,
Making the mundane beautiful with your breath,
Your beat driving out the stillness within,
Stirring up passions and emotions
In an otherwise placid world,
Creating currents of rhythm and longing
From a stagnant suffocation,
Teasing, tantalising, making me speak your words,
Filling me with belonging; and then
Leaving me with your fragrance,
Controlling me, making me long for more.
My mistress in a world unlike we know,
Visiting me only when I’m alone as you,
Turning me inside out, emptying the darkness,
Without judgement, without ridicule,
Filling me with pure, passionate desire;
Slow-dancing with me, Bringing time to a standstill,
My muse, my music, my Poetry...

The Room

We sat there in silence
Palms on our chins, elbows on the table
With no tablecloth, vase or flowers,
Surrounded by bare, cracked walls
With spider webs and stains from a careless past;
No paintings to hang, no bookshelves to stack;
Mere bruised egos lying amidst broken glass;
Empty picture-frames that were long since trashed;
Curtain-less windows and latch-less doors,
For there was nothing there to see or hide.
We had locked our selves in our mind's vault -
The only place we knew as ours,
As the world stared in to the empty room, 
Curiously gaping at the pointlessness of it all.

Then as our eyes met, and our arms followed,
We spoke in kisses, your hand clasped in mine.
We unleashed our thoughts, fearfully at first,
Watching them intertwine and colour up the room.

We got up to walk, taking careful steps,

Clearing out the pieces, mopping up the dust,
Painting the walls with promises and plans;
Hanging pictures of our conversation.
There was music too, as I held you close
And we whispered, lest they should hear -
"Let's get some latches now
And bring along some curtains too,
For this is us now and ours to protect;
This room is not theirs to share".