Cris Ben

Maya I hear the caged birds sing
Now, one on my window sill
And one in me, composing, singing,
pouring his tears on this song.
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First thought of you in the morning used to send me a jolt that makes
both side of my lips stretch up. And now,
first thought of you sends a quiver to my limestone-brittle heart
that partly crumbles from the flashback of your smiles;
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When the sky darkens and clouds shroud above
concealing the sun's rays of light, warmth and love,
I am missing you.
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these nights have been so selfish to me, so cruel
sleepless eyes, dreams deprived
mind awake of thoughts swirling in a downward spiral
a maelstrom storming round and round
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Of verses and of ink,
Pours and fills pleated fibres
of pages sullen or blunt
with every emotion flowing.
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Even clouds,
lofty, pure and divine,

darken and cry.
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Yonder lies a man, a brother, a friend, a father, a son
whose soul flickering like dying little sun
amidst the eclectic mob of murmuring prayers
exuding hopes desperate, angry and strong
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I took this photo when our love was still in bloom,
But how fast the breeze carries seasons,
how fast the sky changes the faces of the moon,
Sultry summer kisses to ardent winter spoons
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You say I'm childish-

when i told you I got hurt the first time your mouth gave me a curse
I was dumbfounded even by another goddamn profane slur.
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until I am found a poet...
until I find a soul
that peruses my verses
one who cares not about meters,
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From dust to steel and concrete cities they rise
As day by day they grow and evolve their statures
Waving their red flag so high and proud
On a pedestal made of stolen lands and trampled lives.
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it doesn't matter how many of its leaves fall,
it still adorns its boughs with more.

it doesn't matter how many storms try to make it bow and bend down,
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Now I can just remember when you said you love me before
No matter how you try to say you still do
it has been long gone my love
gone for a while even before I finally realized.
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You stay there and I stay here.
There's no need to close the space between.
You go forth and I go back.
Go find your future while I go find my yester life.
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I have dreamt over and over again
to find you flying together by my side
in that floating wonderland
where rainbows and unicorns reside
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I know I may be illogical sometimes
especially when superfluous emotions start to well out of my heart.
I become romantic, ecstatic, doubtful, cynic, less esteemed, sensitive, vulnerable...
...like a child full of joyful dreams from the all day's play;
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Woke up sweating and wishing to go back to the dream
Where my eyes sinned from the fiery lust that kept pulling me in…

'Twas yond the woods I cannot forget
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In the middle of turmoil and terrors of wars,
Screams pervade each place with just a word-
Help- amidst rallying gunshots and bombs' explosive roars.
With my unyielding will and unsheathed sword
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As you start losing your youth
And hair turns grey, skin wrinkly old
You lose the strength that keeps your soul ahold
You sink eyes shut but mind afloat
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