Ibn Ali Poems

Good love's a lizard's tail,
If severed it grows,
Time permitting,
Joy is always intermittent,
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Faded glory
The ambience shines Amber and casts a sunset glow on everything
Your face at most garners garlands of 'I remember him'
And that won't do
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Why can't I hear the jaybird's song
From where she was perched before
Out by the faded house
With the silver weeping birch
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So many times in life I prioritised things that weren't important
And even though I was losing the fight
I still fought it
Fixated on the destination ahead and missed the journey
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I'll always love you, sometimes
Sometimes I'll always be there for you
Inbetween the bitter parts
We fight like goliaths
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Large eyes, wide, dupe whoever I'm sat with or I'm near
Talk, my mind's docked by the shore of some sequestered sea
Where compunction hinders function
Vice is contra to contrition
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They don't know my secret tears
I smile at them with fear
Their joy's their's
It's mine delayed that makes me scared
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I seek her out like water seeks a drain
Through mountainous terrain and rocky tracts
Always spiraling downward
I'm sure there's a sign in that
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My eyes bolt their restraints
In search of something wonderful and strange
Any beauty recognised is tame
I've willed her night and day
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If sins had scents
How would you smell
Rancid, putrid?
Would you repel
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