One Year

How many moments pass...
What memories are made...
Time that is treasured...
Or left to slip away? ...

In three hundred sixty five days....
What realities will we realize...
How many dreams will come true...
and How many will die? ...

At the end of the span...
That clip of time, will it be enough...
To build the story on...
Or will that year become a chapter...

A Chapter in life...
Lessons learned, laughter lived,
Love shared and let go...
As the story so unfolds...

A year...
In a lifetime is but a blink of an eye...
A year...
In a chapter is a whole life...

@s.irfanaleem 3.22.2014

Breathe Free

Free yourself of all those words ... you could never say ..
Release the thoughts that tumble around within your head...
..... weighing you down each day,
close your eyes... and fall asleep.... ...
holding onto peaceful memories ....
..... thoughts of love and happiness...
and in the morning you will wake...
feeling the inner ..... ... reconnect....
for underneath the words unspoken,
the thoughts unreleased... the weight of the world...
you never stopped knowing how to be FREE.
how to live, how to love...
how to just Breathe.

@s.irfanaleem 3.9.14

Believe in You

It's the strongest blows to our hearts and minds...
that send us searching deep inside,
For what it is that will get us through.

Though while in the search it may seem,
It's a clouded place within where you seek,
Once that door for direction was opened...
.... The truth of your strength...
It was silently spoken.

This too shall pass in time.
And you will find on the other side...
The man you know to be within...
The strength that stands...
Against life's strongest winds. 

(never stop believing in you) 

@ s.irfanaleem

(written for a friend) 

Fairy Tales End

 

If you cry for me and fall apart...
Does it mean I have forever stolen your heart?
Will it make me the keeper of your soul?
If every time I walk away ... you never know,
.... how to let me go?

What does it make me then,
if for you the tears..
I rarely shed?
The time, the distance... only builds within..
the strength and reassurance...
that this was never what we thought it was,
.... fairy tales end,
and are rarely true Love.

I never stole your heart .... because I never
claimed it as mine... you gave it away..
into vacant space hoping in mine is where it would find...
find a place to take root and build a home...
but the landing never came... the roots never grew..
now it is time ...
time for it to come floating back to you.

I can no longer be the keeper of your soul,
holding pieces to make them whole...
Living lies to keep you free...
free from heartbreaks destiny.
please...  ahhh please...
one day forgive me...
for I need to just leave.

@ s.irfanaleem 3-3-2014

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