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Words
By Fayrouz Sadek
In a world where money is power
I choose words to guide my life
A land so filthy it needs a scour
Where beings live only to strife
Words may linger for a lifetime
Same as a lover’s gentle kiss
Make a killer commit a crime
With his conscience lost in vast abyss
Words can brutally shatter a heart
Words have the power to destroy
They can tear your whole world apart
They can turn misery into joy
Words can bewilder the sane
Words can make one weep
They can cause so much pain
That a man cannot even sleep.
Words can hurt you to your core
With no idea of what they mean
You start looking for the exit door
Yet there’s nothing to do but scream
Words are more than missiles
Words can strike one’s heart
They can leave you damaged
When they pierce like a dart
How could some letters make the world shake
The unbelievable power to build or break
A violent storm with souls to decimate
Leaving you dead while still awake
I dream my words would be my legacy
A part of me to live when I’m gone
So mankind knows it was my destiny
To touch hearts from day to dawn
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Yours
By Fayrouz Sadek
They say time helps you heal
Scars and wounds would disappear
Your body once more starts to feel
Turns out nothing they say is real
Your soul aches for their existence
Your body trembles at their touch
All what’s stopping you is the distance
Asking yourself why you loved so much?
Having flashbacks of how it started
Drowning in your eyes for the first time
Because of you my soul departed
And wanting you will always be a crime
I want you to feel me in your veins
I want to be your favourite hiding place
To conquer this life as it rains
To leave a mark, to leave a trace
I crave the delicious indecent lust
You surrender your body, an act of trust
Let me give you a gift of promised pleasure
One so rare, one you can’t measure
What’s a life if you don’t love so deeply?
A hollow ghost is what you’ll be
And fear of emptiness wakes you from your sleep
Then the passionate eyes you can no longer read
How can the presence of a soul give you hope?
Make your heart pulse, It’s rebirth
Slowly with darkness you would learn to cope
Help you realise what you’re worth
I pray that one day it feels right
Either to give up or hold on tight
Words inside me I can never write
In another life, our future would be bright
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Identity
By Fayrouz Sadek
A little girl with a heart full of life
Crawls into this world with dreams so wild
Take my hands, I may be your light
If only I had more time as a child
The dark wings of night enfolded
Here’s my head, purge out my nightmares
They lied. Saying this life can be molded
I’m begging please, light my way with flares
I always see them passing me by
Shadows of friends looking me in the eye
With every loss a piece of my soul dies
And sour memories leave my body dry
In my country, I’m labelled ‘mad’
Locked in the asylum inside my mind
They’ve broken my soul, trust me I’m glad
I can’t feel pain even if I tried
I drowned my sorrows in the deepest of oceans
I finally began to feel
Seized the key to unlock all emotions
That I became something real
I found my purpose in the souls of others
Stitching wounds for shattered hearts
Cleansing spirits, replacing mothers
Found my identity as a new lifetime starts