I am an aspiring polymath, I have a passion for learning, perhaps an appetite for life and for all that the world has to offer. A self-proclaimed Inquisitive Dreamer, I find that “I collect
hobbies”.
While I do enjoy penning down my musings, sometimes, I end up writing poetry on a whim. I feel writing or poetry flows through the writer but comes from Above and perhaps, that is how millions can relate to one individual’s written word.
Dubai Poetics caught my interest because of the good vibes it sends out. Words can make an impact and the Poetryhood allows me to do just that. It gives me the freedom of creative expression and a complacency of sorts that I am making a contribution to my community, however little it may be.
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The Right Words
By Kokab S. Syed
Night sky beats down all that was left in me
All is gone now and no more, nowhere to flee
What’s left unsaid may forever haunt you and me
Not only did you fail us, you chose not to see
Broken and shattered, the mirror of my heart
Shall tear down all doors, rise like a star
You’ll learn you were the black hole tearing me apart
I was always alone, you never played your part
You almost had me convinced I didn’t try hard enough
One day perhaps you’ll see, I always found it tough
All I needed maybe was your light to lead away
I just couldn’t tell you that, I never found a way
That which I knew not, I couldn’t relay
What you wished to hear, I didn’t know how to say
You never knew I’d shine if you let me and I lost my way
I’d have shone by your side, if you’d wanted me to stay
Photo credit: Roksolana Zasiadko
Wildflowers and Weeds
By Kokab S. Syed
They cross paths on the loneliest of streets, on a lonely day
Each wondering about the other, with nothing much to say
Holding on to secrets too trivial to reveal
They talk of hopes that live, of dreams half real
What would’ve you been in another life – had things gone differently
Just who I am, she states. Only better, stronger too, happier probably
A wildflower, out in the open, wild and free
Yet close to my kind, my tribe, my family
Feeling the beaming sun, swaying with the winds that greet
Yielding all that warmth in bright hues and scents sweet
Staying true to my roots, oddities and essence
Holding fast to the very cause of my presence
Disheartened and pensive, he confesses unwittingly:
Not all are as fortunate; if anything, a weed I’d be
Smiling she adds: Of the very best kind you mean
Ones that live passionately, the strong and keen
You are what you will, some dreams do come true
Look around. If weeds can blossom, so can you
Photo credit: Matthew Wiebe
Travel with Me
By Kokab S. Syed
I have been meaning to ask
For years now I must’ve been
So think awhile then answer me
If you’d like to be my travel buddy
Each day Earth takes a spin
Balancing the chaos within
Dancing to a rhythm unheard
Inside a labyrinth sparklecoloured
Those bound by fate, idle and sad
With nowhere to go, nothing much to see
Or the ones caught, in a race with time
Too driven to pause, live and just be
Even the beauty locked up by the beast
Or that one in the tower a dragon guards
All go round with every twirl down the orbit
On and on, for Earth’s clock-work-wound
Now we could carry on as we have all along
Or give each other company from this moment on
For every hour of every day of our journey to be
Will you take my hand, will you travel with me?