Poetry

Angel on Fire

Angel on Fire.

They said it was freedom
They said it was a mission
They said it was peace
It made me an orphan
I am nine and an angel on fire

They promised justice
They promised equality
They gave us poverty and fields of land mines
It gave me one leg to hop on my life
I am ten and an angel on fire

They said it is good for the country
They said it is all about economics
They called it tourism and others called it exploitation
It shattered my innocence
I am eleven and an angel on fire

It’s a way of life they say
A path to make my future bright they say
A way to support my parents they say
A gardener, a cook among the wealthiest of the “saints”
A servant for the serpents barely 13 and an angel on fire

Nike, Levi, Gap, Express,
Wal-Mart, Crew, Champion of Fore ever 21.
Few of our needful things protected by their rights.
We “just do it” , bar questions of got more pay?
I am a sweatshop asset, going on 16, an angel on fire

We come and go among the popular saints
Our rights taken away;
By the plunderers of our goals and dreams
I’m a laborer, a servant, an orphan, a sex object
It’s not easy being me,
I am the child the want I want to be,
An angel on Fire.

The Twist

The Twist.

This is no bump in the dark
A bump in to a burp! perhaps
Darn! How ‘nerdy’ it sounds
I hope she reads on

This is no phantom girl
Jacked up with life and color, a hint of uncertainty
Bubbly and spirited, deep rooted is a taste like a cola
She is the real thing!

Drenched in my own fear and selfishness
The greatest of all being the loss of a friend
In the comfort of you;
I take refuge

I like her, she likes me
Lies fate it self, which reads
I like her and she likes him;
I’m floating in the sea of dreams

But wait, maybe
A twist in fate
A twist in chance
A twist within a friend
Might keep me a shore.

Have you ever been loved?

Have you ever been loved?

Surrounded by my peers in lighting stories, and boring lives
Contemplating my moves in forgetting my self
Ignoring the present, factoring in the past
Sacrifice of the adult, for the return of
The forbidden girl, the lost childhood
When peers become friends and,
My friends become shadows…

I am searching for the commentitious
religion of self being
In the absence of my consciousness, the smoking of my self
The presence of my libido, in the arms of his deception
The rising of the breasts and the breath of the lips
as I stare upon
The naked eyes, those hollow eyes…
As I glare on my reflection
The marriage of seduction and hope
It’s the harmony of a thousand voices
Shouting at me, stirring up me
Drowning my screams let afloat my anger
In the comfort of my quilt
As I lay in my bed
Waking up in the midst of work,
I smile upon the lust of night
Finding hope in the air I breathe in,
Helps me forget those fights of emptiness
‘Cause I been told I’m right even when its wrong
The telltales of those scares are present in my -
Words for him, the words we mean
The emptiness of love at birth
Is the equalizer for all human babies!
We spent our life time defining it
In the realm of securing it
While we lose most it
In the presence of the selfish being
The absence of the humane being
The perceived threat
Which I have imposed on my self
of the persons that love me,
The ones which I look through the kaleidoscope
For our actions define us, our words moves us
And our love saves us.
Have you ever been Loved?