Samer Madbak

It needs no much talking
I’ll straightway declare:
It’s friendship I’m stalking-
And friends are so rare-
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When lances of loneliness stab me so deep,
As daystar declines, and the Globe falls asleep,
When uncontrolled sadness reigns over my realms,
A feeling of sore in my heart overwhelms.
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How shall I thank you? Let me count the ways
And though the styles of hearty gratitude
Are various, do forgive my attitude
If I, in shaky verse, should pen my praise
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My stalk is dry, these boughs are struck with blight
This figless foliage stands a barren tree
A life anathema my fair decree
To wither from the roots is verdict right
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That's my last Nissan rolling down the street
Looking as if she were brand new, this hand
That veered her supple wheels has no command
She moves, but these are not my pressing feet
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Oh little pet, how much we are akin
Two lonesome creatures in a crystal jail
With glassy eyes we plod an aimless trail
An idle flutter and a visc'ral fin
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Oh den of dire dreams, and pit of pain
How woeful are your whims, your wicked web
Your beaming bliss is but a bilious bleb
Thou hole of heady hopes, O world inane!
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Domesticated, this bloodthirsty beast
Is tame, these feral urges are subdued
Refined and meek the erstwhile brash and crude
And fragrant fasting foils that flagrant feast
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INTRODUCTION:

How shall I start, O how can I commence
My ditty, Muse, when I am short of sense
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Sweet Mother, there is nothing I can tell,
My love is past the bound’ries of expression
And if I lisp, my terms are ill digression
A stray account of me, a wasted yell,
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'Twas not my fault
But cosmic time
That flung me to this vault
Of boundless strife
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There is a certain glamour in those eyes
A curious blend of grief and gaiety
That nourishes my heart with buoyancy
Exalts my spirit unto blissful highs…
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Your mem’ry torments me and sets me aflame,
Bewilders my senses, enfeebles my frame.
This love that I feel is afflicting my soul,
Augmenting my heartache whene’er I am sole.
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Impound my verve, dissolve my grief, unhinge
The weary rusted pivots of my cheer
I wield my chest, brandish your torrid spear
And jab at will, I won't retract or cringe
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I miss you, love, I miss your presence dear
Your smile, your scent so sweet fill not the air
The walls are dull, the bed is bleak and bare
Where is that soothing touch, your heart sincere?
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Dethrone me now, depose me
Usurp this gaudy crown
Before I coalesce
With this lofty seat
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There is no blood beneath this hollow hull
A lifeless life of missions to fulfill
I grit my grit beneath this restless mill
I don the pall of burden, dark and dull,
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Your lipstick is untouched, your wrinkled skirt
Unironed, dryer hushed, your sweet cologne
Does not pervade the room, and all alone
I dust my suit and flat my yellow shirt
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Dear Dave, your arguments, I must admit,
Have often struck an amenable chord
A man of knowledge vast, of savvy wit,
A whiz of rhetoric, a diction lord,
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Do I love you, do I? O Lord I wish I knew
The jargon of my soul that I may manifest
My lesser secrets, Oh I wish I could construe
The sapless murmurs soaring in my burning breast
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