R. Ariffin Poems

The tide is coming down to bathe you
In colors of futile waves and emptied answers
So set loose your weariness, my love
I am letting go all my broken chances
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I was the illumination that embraced your presence
Who blinded my own sight for earth bound reality
I was the sound of trust that whispered into your soul
and had kept you from walking away from me
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The room suffocates and deafening,
Without hopes and absolution to ponder;
upon; as I thought at last the storm has receded,
You came unto my mind with thunder,
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Solace is the bed where stars
Unwind their masks and bathe
Under the deep of your cosmic cry
Above the pillar of your disgrace
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Do you smile now?
When skies are finally clear
From the torment of my image at every doorstep
Haunting your mind with the possibility of a knocking
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Smile for me, as if tomorrow would come in black
And rain would fall in liquid fire, so potent
It burns all heart of men in blazing darkness
Smile for me, as if your love would come back,
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You're standing in
Front
Of me
With your hand in your pocket
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The streetlights beyond that chocked my eyes
With colored neon in stammering darkness
Could never illuminate these pungent lies
No more than you could have done
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I'm waking up into the system
That welcomes you back into the embrace
Of the marvel of wireless communications
Diagnosing love for rain and joy for daze
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Watch me carefully now
As I waltz into your dark balcony
Of discontented thoughts and wishes
Light it up and let me see
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