Brink

It's late

The sun is setting

Shadows grow

More menacing

They see me

Sure they do

They don't care

So don't you

I smile

All will agree

No one will miss

Poor old me

-Izzat R.

Wings

Have none ever wondered why

We were never made to soar

If I had wings to fly up high

The universe, would I explore

Never one to love goodbyes

To leave your side so very soon

If I had wings to soar the skies

We'd be kissing on the moon

Across the sea, across the skies

This I know is ever true

If I had wings to soar up high

I'd fly straight on home to you

-Izzat R.

Yearn

A summer night has gone to pass

Without that melodic lilt of yours

A voice none other could surpass

To treat an ailment only one could cure

The morrow has made a sacred oath

One that we could not elude

To stretch between two lovers' souls

A thousand miles of ocean blue

Darling, I can't promise you the stars

But please don't ever be afraid

For even if you're light years far

My love for you won't ever fade

-Izzat R.

Tooth And Nail

Relentless

For the taste of your love

Restless

For the touch of your skin

Insanity

Holds not a minute's respite

Hazy

Is everything else but you

By tooth

I will give you what you deserve

By nail

I will retrieve you from the earth

-Izzat R.

Twice Shy

What else is there to despise

When the morrow brings naught anew

Dabbled in the workings of the soul

Much too much; through and through

Kindled flames and snuffed out candles

A distinction I can no longer trace

Much less the presence of a void
Rather an absence of a space

-Izzat R.

Aurora

Blink

Tell me what you see

The Earth

At the palm of my hand

All its majesty and grandeur

Formed by only sea and land

Blink

Now what do you perceive?

Planets

9, no 8, in all

It just takes my breath away

How they all look so small

Blink

Is there anything new you discern?

The galaxies

Oh, there really aren’t words to say

Such astounding beauty

Don’t wake me, please let me stay

Open your eyes

You’ve been gone far too long

Drifting ever further away

In a direction that is wrong

Blink

Look outside, tell me what you glimpse

Colours

People, cars, and the sky so blue

Like an aurora

Their colours are pretty too

Think

We all look too far for beauty

For what has always been near

You should never stop living

In the now and the here

Now blink
And stop making the universe shrink

-Izzat R.

North Star

I've been lost at sea

For far too long

The voices scream

Telling me I've had enough

But for now, it's quiet

For now

They say there is a calm

Right before the storm

How true that is

Now depends on you

So point
And I will follow

-Izzat R.