hajara abdul khader

A new world is born everyday
Out of the corners of our eyes.

Things once seen pass away
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I saw a rose with no thorns;
It grew from dirty ground.

Red as cherry,
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There was once a sun above me,
Dazzling my eyes with its glorious glare;
I took it for hope, ever-abounding hope.
I forgot that every sun sets at last;
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I stand upon a jutting stone
Sticking out from a cliff,
Overlooking the sea,
And the sky overhead.
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I meet countless everyday;
They fail me now and again.
I retreat.
But my day never dies;
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The world has lost a king.
Music is in chaos; it bewails his loss,
The one whose life was music.
All danced to his tune;
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The sky is dark, overcast with the cotton.
Wind blows hard raving against the Order.
A ship set sail along the face of troubled waters,
Compassed towards the core of ultimate hullabaloo.
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A swarm of darkness creeps into my mind,
Forming dunes of stinging chronicles,
Yearning all the while for my kind
To come rushing with their pinnacles
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Dawn breaks with the fall on earth of life,
Take to water, ducks flock upto their lay.
Parts from stream, sticks out to knife,
From utmost naivete a duckling out of way.
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I


I don't know how it means to have one,
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I see the passion in your eyes,
For they flash with fervor.
But tell me what marked them,
Is it dream or reality?
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One early morn in the bloom of spring
I saw your scarlet cheeks lighting up my day;
I heard the melody of the bird in me sing
To the romantic sky to bring home my pay.
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I can see somebody strolling down the street,
A dazed look in his face and a rose in hand.
It takes nobody to say that he's there to meet
A sweetheart with mischief in her eyes and....
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Time's gonna prove my love;
Years gonna drive me up;
Things gonna come my way;
And I'm gonna make my day.
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I loved,
For too long.
And now...
I'm empty.
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In the solitude of the wide span of breezy seashore
I stand watching the last glints of hope sink beneath hills.
The waves wash my feet with promising delight;
But at once move away with my heart in their crib.
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Nothing reveals the mysterious eyes of fate,
So do we think of our palms and stars?
But within us its seeds lay;
The depth of boundless darkness unfolds.
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Glancing through the orb of life
I see shades of my dreams
Miles away from me, forgotten decades ago,
Like snow-covered mist in freezing winter,
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My head bows before Your Heavenly Presence;
Your Stars and Moon and Sun smile at me.
A Holy Communion, sing your wild tenants;
An insolent distraction, cry your humanity.
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I sit alone brooding over my past,
No clear picture so far.
I stumble, it seems time to act
The part I am bound to.
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