Your Egypt

[Winky]

Good night my love


Sleep tight, my love
Voices have been silenced
The night is here already
The light in their eyes is snuffed out
Dream my love
The news is full of suffering
sleep well, sleep warm
people are killing
I am here for you
people are perishing
I wait for you
this is our world
until the sun comes up again
Not a day of peace

Winky

[moll]

Did you write that, Winky?

I wish I could write poetry, it never sounds right when I try :cry:

[Winky]

:) I did Moll
It was not meant to be poetry
It sort of rolled out of my heart and wanted to change it into poetry but thought to leave it .
I have recently started to write poetry again but none of it would I dare to post here .
Years ago I used to write in my own language and actually got something published It was about the orphan's of War.

[Hedgehog]

what is 'your own language' Winky..????

[Winky]

Hedgehog wrote: what is 'your own language' Winky..????

:) My own language Hedgy is the one my Mum eventually taught me ,its the language which goes with my passport. she was very ill the first two years of my life and I was looked after by an Indonesian nanny who taught me Malay which was apparently the first language I "spoke"


BTW
When I said I got something published, it sounds more interesting then it was :) , it meant one poem only was chosen in a competition 8) and it was published in our College Paper .

:wink:

[Adoula]

Wow, this one is a smile at the edge of sadness.

Can I have a private lessons on how to write a poetry? :wink:

[Winky]

My mind has left me


While my laughter is ringing in your ears
I am so careful not to show my tears
my bedroom is not the only hiding place
It's inside my head, behind my smiling face
where I go.. to be with you

No one can reach me there,
not least the one who doesn't care
I will not show the desperate pain I feel
taking great care to conceal
my longing... to be with you

Not so long ago you were living in my heart
now it is the echo of silence I hear,
the echo of promisses never to part.
The sickening feeling of fear
when all I want ....is to be with you.


Never will I forget your words of farewell
For now... I am an empty shell
I will never let you see
that my mind has deserted me
it has left me.... to be with you

[Winky]

The awful truth


Last night I awoke
to a heart rendering sound
I heard someone's crying
intense, resonating and profound...

I awoke to the sound of death
a song of pain and sorrow
a refrain of loss and infinite sadness,
a warning... there will be no tomorrow.

Then the awful truth dawned on me
it is our love which is broken.
I found myself cry out in despair !
Words had been but a feeble token
our future was shattered beyond repair.

[Winky]

If you could have stood at my bed last night
you would have beeen filled with fright
Seeing me tossing and turning
pulling the sheets apart


If you could have opened the door to my heart
you would have found madness,
emotions on the rampart
wild heavenly happiness
spoiled by deep sadness .


If you could have opened the door to my mind last night
you would have recoiled in horror to find
the utter mayhem you caused ! The frantic
dizzying speed of thoughts, spinning round and round,
all senses at high alert, sheer blinding panic
is what you would have found ...


If you would have tried to journey through my veins
you would have been swept away,
drowned in an angry turmoil of waves.
My blood would have poisened you in a deadly spray.


And if you would have tried to gasp for breath
you would have found a void
it would have been certain death
the dream destroyed

[Winky]

I thought I would search
for the flower of oblivion
but I did not need to
I found it already growing in your heart.

[Winky]

The salty taste on my lips
is the taste of you
Dampness on my cheek
evoked by a fleeting thought
holds no more mystique
its what my memories brought
crumpled pages filled with hope of love so true
words of longing and yearning
a future of laughter and happiness
extinguished with a cloak of sadness

[Winky]