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Sometimes its painful and my eyes well up Sometimes it tickles me into a laughing fit Sometimes I think of the moments, feel peaceful inside me and smile Sometimes I am lonely, sense that bottomless feeling Sometimes I remember the warmth of his hug, I dream to dream of him sleeping in his arms Sometimes I doze off on my side of the bed contented with my desolate indistinct dreams Sometimes I want to curl up and die Sometimes I want to live with him forever Sometimes I want to become an eternal river that never stops flowing. All these moments and controversies remains and reminds me 'I'm alive!' ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- --------- But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to live. -From Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin So here I am looking forward to meet men of my interest. We might become friends. Who knows, like a butterfly out of a caterpillar, it could become a silly love and more! ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- -----------Not a believer inside the mosque, am I Nor a pagan disciple of false rites Not the pure amongst the impure Neither Moses, nor the Pharoh Bulleh! to me, I am not known Not in the holy Vedas, am I Nor in opium, neither in wine Not in the drunkard`s craze Niether awake, nor in a sleeping daze Bulleh! to me, I am not known In happiness nor in sorrow, am I Neither clean, nor a filthy mire Not from water, nor from earth Neither fire, nor from air, is my birth Bulleh! to me, I am not known Not an Arab, nor Lahori Neither Hindi, nor Nagauri Hindu, Turk (Muslim), nor Peshawari Nor do I live in Nadaun Bulleh! to me, I am not known Secrets of religion, I have not known From Adam and Eve, I am not born I am not the name I assume Not in stillness, nor on the move Bulleh! to me, I am not known I am the first, I am the last None other, have I ever known I am the wisest of them all Bulleh! do I stand alone? Bulleh! to me, I am not known - Bulleh Shah, Punjabi Sufi Poet ________________________________________ ___________ Is there a difference between yes and no? Is there a difference between good and evil? Must I fear what others fear? What nonsense! Other people are contented, enjoying the sacrificial feast of the ox. In spring some go to the park, and climb the terrace, But I alone am wandering, not knowing where I am. I’m alone, without a place to go. Most people seem knowledgeable and bright. I alone am simple and dull. Other people see differences and are sharp. I alone make no distinctions. I aimlessly drift on the great tides of the endless seas, at the mercy of the indifferent winds. I am different. I am nourished by the great mother. - The Tao Te Ching ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- Fear not, O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you, I candidly confess, a queer, queer race, of novel fashion And yet the same old human race—the same within, without, Faces and hearts the same feelings the same yearnings the same, The same old love beauty and use the same. From 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman ======================================== =========== Rudyard Kipling The Thousandth Man One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend On what the world sees in you, But the Thousandth man will stand your friend With the whole round world against you. 'Tis neither promise nor prayer nor show Will settle the finding for 'ee. Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em go By your looks, or your acts, or your glory. But if he finds you and you find him. The rest of the world don't matter; For the Thousandth Man will sink or swim With you in any water. You can use his purse with no more talk Than he uses yours for his spendings, And laugh and meet in your daily walk As though there had been no lendings. Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em call For silver and gold in their dealings; But the Thousandth Man h's worth 'em all, Because you can show him your feelings. His wrong's your wrong, and his right's your right, In season or out of season. Stand up and back it in all men's sight -- With that for your only reason! Nine hundred and ninety-nine can't bide The shame or mocking or laughter, But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side To the gallows-foot -- and after! ======================================== ========== Rumi “Leave behind your cleverness, O lover of God: go crazy instead! Become a moth: enter the flame!” ======================================== =========== “Escape me? Never - Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth, While the one eludes, must the other pursue” Robert Browning ======================================== ========== I'm so lucky, I'm a star But I cry, cry, cry in my lonely heart, thinking If there's nothing missing in my life Then why do these tears come at night -Britney Spears ======================================== ========== I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever. Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain, It's ancient tale of being apart or together. As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge, Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time. You become an image of what is remembered forever. You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount. At the heart of time, love of one for another. We have played along side millions of lovers, Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting, the distressful tears of farewell, Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever. ~Rabindranath Tagore ======================================== ========== Without him The world around me changes The trees are bare and everywhere The streets are full of strangers Without me His world would go on turning A world that's full of happiness That I have never known -Eponine in Les Miserables ======================================== ========== I Don’t Find any Interest in My Parent’s House My Beloved’s Town is Most Beautiful However, Nobody Goes or Comes from There There is no Moon, Sun, Wind or Water There Then Who Will Take My Message There? Then Who Will Tell My Pain to My Beloved? There is No Visible Path to Move Forward And You Blame the Past for It How Should the Bride go to the House of the Beloved? Powerful Pangs of Separation are Burning from Inside Dual Reality is Fashioning a Dance to Its Tune There is None Other Than the Guru Who is Mine Who Can Tell the Way Says Kabir Listen oh Aspirant Your Beloved Will Come in a Dream-like State That Alone Will Quench the Thirst of your Heart - 'Naiharva' by Kabir ======================================== ========== Virginia Woolf: Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours. - The Hours (2002) ======================================== ============= I can't believe what I'm feeling You're confusing me you five star being Such a wonderful creature I love all your powerful features Catacombs of unknown Mysteries yet to unearth too scared to explore Afraid of unimaginable hurt I remain on your shores I don't know what I'm feeling You're confusing me you five star being So I run and I hide Taking comfort in the disguise as a mountain called peace of mind But you send out earthquakes To make my world shake To annihilate the pain of my heartache And save me Save me from this Beast they call Grief I don't like what I'm feeling I need rescuing you five star being Such a powerful opposition Not wanting to submit to you Scary conceptualizations Of falling in love with you So I run and I hide Seeking refuge in the disguise In a facade called peace of mind A barricade to my heaven within But you send out earthquakes To make my world shake To annihilate the pain of my heartache And save me Save me from this Beast they call Grief I stare up at my ceiling I have no more feelings Where are you my Five Star Being? - http://www.bandmix.ca/bawlla/ ======================================== =========== | |||||||||||||||||||
