Regrettable Travails

I run barefoot, with the wind teasing my hair back

I run for the joy of the salty sea spraying my face

I run away from nothing, and toward everything

Did you follow me just for your whim of chasing?

I travel life’s forests and deserts seeking truths

An errant child with a warbled time machine

I travel back and forth unforgiving myself

Were you a mirage or a misjudgement?

I know I should keep running,

I know I shouldn’t turn back and look

Yet I get persuaded over better sense,

Like the onlookers in a road accident

Why did you turn out to be,

Like the apparition in my dreams?

It is amazing now when I think back,

What that sinking resigned feeling echoes

Realizing I’m in the wrong bus, yet riding on

Why did you not stop at that look in my eyes?

Love or hate is no laughing matter

Was it curiosity or jealousy that egged you on,

You outran me, jumped at me from behind

And said boo,

I’d forgive you for that, but

Why did you make hate to me?

Music Room

Amidst swirling smoke you were a vision in white

A new face yet somehow familiar

Things you said not to my face, made it hard to lock sight

With you, yet you were hard to look away from

Like a pair of magnets in the hands of a naughty child

I was drawn to you, unmindful you sat painfully afar

You sipped your drink and I got high, one smile of yours, I was beguiled

Music rained and I was a-drench, still the thirst I just couldn’t quench

Love makes friends of enemies, lovers, enemies of friends they say

They saw their worst fears dance alive in our eyes,

Ban our meetings, censor our speech and actions they may, 

Banishing you from my heart is like wishing away hours from a day

From time immemorial my love, it takes but a fleeting moment

To unearth a new world, an innocent brush and man discovered fire,

A split second for the big bang to mobilise all that was dormant

There was a brush; there was fire, an explosion and a stairway to heaven

My sweet torment, ours is one love with no expectation but love,  

We were together before birth; we will be together after death

Like God and Time, our journey knows no start nor end, up above

We have a dimension where you are as close to me as thought is to mind