Saturday, September 11, 2010

Who are we?




They make us cut our locks, by their piercing looks
We change our wardrobes, so we are not labeled rebels
So we can fit, and attain goals masked by the mist
How they rule over our creative souls is cruel.

They say we look shabby, and out goes our ragged denim
That music its too loud, and there we are turning it down
Rock and roll is the devil's, at them we could throw pebbles
But why don't we? Scared spineless we!

Hiding our tattoos, as if they were marks of failure
Not pursuing painting, for we can't defend what is for sure
Here we are frustrated, with a boring job to endure
If only we made that call, do we not know our cure?

Shifting in our coloured skin, as if we don't belong
Speaking silence, for fear of saying it wrong
Are we not of this race, this very human song
Of freedom, of power? enslaved for how long?

You marry her, and yet you kiss his face
In the closet you sit and long for same else
Unfair to your wife and untrue to yourself
All because they prosecute and persecute

Why do we let them prevail, and retreat behind our veils
Have we a good response? have we no bravery as to riposte?
Its a shame, that we have no name amongst them
But what they call us, make us, FAKE US!

Sunday, September 5, 2010

So you know


From Sufi Rabia -

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?

- Rabia al Basri [1]

(Via Arif Jinha)

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Ode to Ankh




Dear Ankh,

Since we rubbed feet under the table at that dinner, I haven’t slept much,
Thoughts of you ceaselessly torment me,
Images of you won’t give mine mind any calm,
Possibly it was a fleeting instant,
Perhaps the booze fogged up our judgment,
Or maybe it simply was what it was,
A moment,OUR moment
I don’t know what to think, or what to make of it,
I just pray you have trouble getting shuteye too.

Ever yours,
Xx.

Kiss me?




Back to the beginning of the end
Right where it all happened
Back to the spot where electricity flowed
Bursting with desire, hormones raging
Rubbing feet, beneath the desk,
Daze.

I am here, right at the unanticipated rendezvous
Recreating and reliving long gone moments
Where finally we bonded, our energies coupled
Where our eyes met, and our bodies connected
The pit of my stomach turning,
My heart swollen with anticipation.

I want to hug you but I won’t
I want to touch you but I can’t
I want to kiss you, will you let me? I ask.
You giggle, is that a yes? I wonder.

I don’t make my move
I won’t leap before time
I will hold back, even if it kills me
Till lights turn green, amber is fine; at least it’s not red
Embarrass myself I won’t, show my voracity I can’t
I will hunger with class, am I not a lady?

Something is got to give!




Stay the weekend my love, don’t give up what we have
I’ll make it worthwhile; we’ll drink all the wine
Play by the wild, fly by the wells

Catch fireflies, stare at the skies
At the stars and the lights, in the far distance

We’ll break the rules and rule the jungle
Just say yes and accept the bungle

Eat mushrooms, fly brooms, it’s our honeymoon
Watch Harry potter, forget importance

Get lost in the past, there’s nothing in the post
No one is looking for us, It’s just us as times pass

Lose your watch and clutch onto me
You are all I want, what else do you want?

Thursday, May 20, 2010

I Do, I Will, I Have

How wise I am to have instructed the butler
to instruct the first footman to instruct the second
footman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage;
I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage.

Just as I know that there are two Hagens, Walter and Copen,
I know that marriage is a legal and religious alliance entered
into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a
woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Moreover, just as I am unsure of the difference between
flora and fauna and flotsam and jetsam,
I am quite sure that marriage is the alliance of two people
one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other
never forgetsam,
And he refuses to believe there is a leak in the water pipe or
the gas pipe and she is convinced she is about to asphyxiate
or drown,
And she says, Quick get up and get my hairbrushes off the
windowsill, it's raining in, and he replies, Oh they're all right,
it's only raining straight down.

That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce,
Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of
the immovable object and the irresistible force.
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and
combat over everything debatable and combatable,
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life,
particularly if he has income and she is pattable.


Ogden Nash

Sunday, March 21, 2010

If

If this is all I have left,
If flowery words and insightful paragraphs are where it ends.
If there is no real meaning or lasting truth to it
If choice is no more a tangible option
And desire and promise are futile to my general progress
If something called a gift has bound me to lies

If I'm stuck at the start line of change forever
If there, I shall implode with what's left of my character to slay
Never to run the race
Never to advance toward my crucial goals.
If my fears will continue to be realised
If my tears shall continue to cause no relief
And my weaknesses continue to inflate my strife
And master my pain

If hope, faith and love can no longer serve my plight
In a world that has lost the patience or the grace to pardon me any longer

Then Lord, I will not make it through…
Nay, I cannot
Lord, soon bring me home to you.

© juliana ohayo