The silent voyager

Travelling in the sea for endless years,

The sails are tattered yet fighting its fears. 

A day of shine and nights full of storm,

The ship silently carries on.

In search of shore for eternity,

Its lost its captain and its crew.

Yet it travels the lonely stretch,

To mend what little of it is left.

With everything lost to the sea,

It belongs to nothing, nothing belongs to it.

The termites of melancholy feeding on it,

This ship is doomed to be forever lost in sea.  

Beyond the eyes

A blank sheet of paper staring back at me,
The words but seem shackled to my heart.
A wide open road calling me ahead,
My feet but seem glued to where they are.
There is hope and faith waiting across the street,
The barbwires of fear but seem to hold me.
 I paint a smile and put on my dancing shoes,
The showers of tears but seem to expose the gash on my face.
I cover myself with the cloak of prayer,
The winds of hurt but seem to penetrate my soul.
So I play the role of a vagabond,
Conceal my scars with the colours of laughter,
Waiting for someone that can see beyond the exterior,
The eyes of presumption but seem to be waiting to disappoint me yet again.

Rain and Shine

The sun is shining and the clouds are gone,
I feel the warmth smiling down on me.
The wind whispers sweet nothings,
The daisy seems to dance for me.

 I step ahead and join the fun,
Jive to the rhythm of your heartbeat.
And that’s when I lose my step,
As shadows make their presence felt.

The snow has melted and spring is here,
There is colour sprinkled everywhere.
Butterflies flutter in my heart,
As you wrap your arms around me.

I close my eyes and dream away,
Your voice a lullaby calming me.
And that’s when I startle myself awake,
For I’ve run out of places to hide shattered dreams.

I wish I could capture these moments in a picture,
I wish I could find the perfect words,
But chances are no longer for me to take,
And this wall around me even I cannot break.

Embrace Reality

With eyes shut to reality,

How long will you live being delusional?

With a dead end waiting at every street,

How many routes will you invent to avoid its permanency?

When the rose tinted glass breaks,

Who do you blame, for your reality was your fantasy?

When every action reflects the inevitable,

For how long will you turn your gaze away?

In the absence of a confession,

Will you justify someone’s actions to pacify your doubts?

When the silence speaks what’s unspoken of,

Will you pretend to be hard of hearing?

When all the signs begin to tell the story,

And your heart will deny the truth,

Let yourself burn in flames of reality,

Than die a million deaths of melancholy.

Attraversiamo

When the wind caresses you,
When the rain kisses your lips,
When the moon watches over u at night,
Know its me.

In the laughter of a kid,
In the smile of a blossomed flower,
In the rays of the sun,
You will find me.

In the stillness of the night,
In the rhythm of your heart beat,
In your dreams and fears,
I will be there.

Where words run out,
In the realms beyond time and space,
Wishing on a falling star,
I shall wait...for you where worlds meet again...

When Heroes Fall...

A realization eventually dawns,

The idols we grow up worshiping are nothing but facades made of clay,

And when life rains they merely break and crumble,

All you can do is helplessly watch them wash away...

What is worse?

I question myself at times,
What is worse?
Living without you in my life,
Or with your memories surrounding me all the time.

What is worse?
To live with the joy of having loved you,
Or with the fear that I may never stop loving you.

What is worse?
To live with contentment of having known you,
Or the anguish of knowing there never will be someone like you.