Saturday, July 17, 2010

Tokyo Heart

Enough with our stories
Time write a new chapter

Beneath a forbidden land you wipe sword
Clean from blood that you shed from those poor souls
Against each other again and again
Then under the same silver-leafed tree you sat
Filling each others' cups with tea
Reminiscing the good old future drama
What brings? What says? What is this?
Enough with madness, we'll write a new chapter

Could it be gold that they seek?
Singing under the moonlight a blank lullaby
It's not hard, it's easy this way of life
But they say no, when we haven't even asked

Hmm... hymn a long hymn
Thinking, thinking is a road
Leading to a birth of a new face
But people only trust their greed

Complexity makes things look great
Sometimes it brings us to our knees
I wonder if I'll be able to slip out
When will this be answered
This circle of life

While Unearthing Diamonds I Found...

I know somewhere out there you are crying
I know what the stars see when they embed the night sky
If it is our destiny to hold onto third thread
It will come through a looking glass

Somewhere is what's beyond
In another sky someone awaits

People never cease to wait in vain
Even as light moves on as fast to tell the time
Why won't they believe that time can play like music
Repeating over and over again
Or going backwards
Or even stop

A sweet fragrance tells of a story from the future
That has not yet begun but that soothes the pain
The pain after being clawed and torn then sewn again
Ahh, what they call a curse is but a wonderful miracle
When the birds sing in the blue sky I gazed at the hill
Where you sat, where you waited
Where it all will begin

And creatures of darkness are made of fire
Who would've thought they could work otherwise
They always say nothing matters
But they had always understood
In the name of the Creator who made me from earth
I vow to fight and retain peace on this land

Monday, June 28, 2010

Democracy

If little children are killed
If women are raped by consent
When war is won by the one with supporters
Even though they know people are dying
People are suffering
And they still say it's the best
If people have to starve
And enslavement occurs again
If knowledge is all it's about
And morals are thrown aside
They let one side bomb the other
But call the other terrorists when they resist
If this is what you call democracy
We don't need it

If only one side gets to speak
And frequent deaths by mistake are overlooked
If only one side controls the media
And no one realise they are brainwashed
When ruthless killing still exist
When a group of people are stomped upon
Just because they don't share the same idea
And just because they fight for what had been stolen from them
You call them terrorists
If anyone gets to insult another
If everyone is free to say what they want
Without a limit, even if someone gets offended
When a friend makes fun of his mother's impaired feet
When a husband laughs at her brother's brain deficiency
And everyone gets to have their say
If this is what you call freedom of speech
We don't need it

But if you call democracy
A place where no one hurts another
Where offenders are dealt upon with justice
And an intelligent ruler walks along his people
Looking at what they eat
Looking at what they're wearing
Then he himself dons the same thing
And eats the same thing
Where understanding is more important than knowledge
When no one is a slave by consent
Where everyone REALLY gets the chance to speak
Without hurting or offending anyone
Where rulers are chosen by majority
Not by unseen voters
And technology is a tool
It is not our god
Then people work to save the earth
And people, and animals as well
When people watch suffering people on the media
They get sad and move to help
Be far they are
Be poor they are
They don't just share their wealth
But they share their sufferings
If this is what you call democracy
It is not far from Islam
If this is what you call democracy
We would not fight you

If you see artists as idols
If everyone struggles to be seen
While no one wants to be the one watching
Except those who benefit from that struggle
When people are judged by their status
By what they have, what they wear
People chase after beauty while their folks grow thin
If commercials tell people what to buy
While small dealers just collapse
If you walk by and see a homeless man
And you don't feel a bit of sympathy
When you think it is the norm of life
To have the poor and do nothing
If you cry over a dying population on the TV
Then have a good night sleep right after
If you have no remorse for that small mistake
Because you don't think anyone will remember
If doctors have to be paid to treat
If rulers have to be paid to write testaments
And women are either denied to equality
Or they are forced to work
If this is what you call democracy
Remember that it won't last long

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Savior Murderers

None of us are in love with war
What you think is but misconception
Then why all the guns and the bombings?
As we climb walls and practice?
When humans are enslaved by other humans
And enslaved by their own greed
We hate war
But we hate more when girls are brainwashed to prostitute

You are slavery by consent
And we are fighting those who enslaved you
Why hate us for carrying rifles
When you love those justice warriors in dramas?
All you hear are from your leaders
Your leaders who are in fact enslaving you
You never get to hear the truth
And you choose to be blind
You choose to call us war-maniacs

We do not just protect ourselves
We do not just protect our families
Religion is a must
Patriotism is rubbish's tool
If you choose to read history you will see
What religion really was
It is the way of life
It is what frees you from corruption

You choose not to see
Thinking you are free
We see brainwashed people
All fooled in misery
And we choose to fight
Though we never love to spill blood
It is the rule of the land
Where tyrants must perish
And where will you go?
Will you support your tyrants?
Or will you mock us, and call us terrorists?
You write in your scripts and films
Of saviours bathing in blood
Cherishing them, wishing they exist
In fact they are in front of your eyes
But you choose not to see

There are things allowed by God
Which God Himself doesn't like
It is called divorce
A separation of man and wife
It is not something pleasing to anyone
It is not the sign of true civilisation
But God gave those blessings
Because we need it
And there are things allowed by God
Which we do not like
It is called battle
A fight to defend humans' rights
Sane humans hate to kill
Only mentally-ills are happy to ride
And they are the ones overpowering you
While we move to free you
So where will you go?
And God gave those orders
Because without us
When all of us are gone
You have no clue to where to find justice

We will go
When the time comes we will leave
Forever leaving this world
Wait for that time
As we are also waiting
Then where will you go?
When there is God on our side
The God who gave you so much
But you who turned away
Who will give you protection?
We will leave this world
The justice warriors you longed for so much
The warriors who were in front of you all the time
The very ones you spat on their faces
When we are gone
Along with the peaceful life that you needed
No one else will fight for you
And no one will protect you

Monday, June 14, 2010

Love Hurts

I have something to say
A longing to fulfil
What have I done
To forget this love
What my hands have done to upset you
I'll repay with my everything

So many days passed
Ever since autumn leaves left their mark
A face I used to love
To long for so long
A person I wanted to hug
That I always loved
Just silently with the breeze
Wrapping my arms around hes shoulders
I've forgotten
What it felt like to love
To miss someone so much

To hate memories
Never looking back
Cause knowing this will happen
This very moment
When I start missing those days
The days where I chased after you
The day we swore to love each other
And those following moments
When there was nothing I loved more
Than to see you every single day

Know my love, that I still hate looking back
Looking back on those days
Those days when nothing could hold me back
When everything I wanted was you
But look at me now
Nothing more than a figure
Lost and stumbling
Falling over and over
The light seems so far
And you are far too
When I walked away on my own

What is it that I seek
Satisfaction from lust and greed?
Denying, but God knows
How much I need help
I'm the weak traveler
Who's lost everything
After such a long time
These tears fall again
As I realize
That I've fallen deep down the trench

You are not an illusion
Not a toy I can play with
Can I just sit down
And stare at you in the eyes
Recalling those lovely green gems
Ahh let me forget those days
The days I loved you
Let me leave these days
The days I turn my back on you
I'll keep on walking
Though the road's tough
I'll find the answer
The day will come
When I'll love you again
The way it should have been
Then I'll look at you again
And probably smile without tears down my cheeks

Probably you don't know
But I'm the one who left you
The one who walked out on you
But you kept on smiling
Believing in me
And I knew that trust
While I keep on playing around
Still you wait for me
For every single second of my return
Never regretting choosing me
As if nothing is wrong
But it's wrong
Why can't I just hold you?
And hold on strong
Why do I keep going away
When I know I'm not that strong?
And everytime I come back
You're there at the door

Don't go away
Don't show me those regretful tears
I wish you'll never know
The meaning of tsurai omoi
When you know what I am
And what I've been

I still hate memories
Bringing back nothing but pain
God this hurts
Love hurts
Even when I'm the one who's hiding it

***

Love letter from The Traveler to The Healer.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Expedition Into The Sea

Se came in a strange way
And se's leaving in a strange way
A very aged companion
From the One that goes beyond time

The clock ticks by
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Echoes on the wall
Se's leaving, oh God, se's leaving
I won't ask why you take hem away
But I beg
Take me with you

Dimensions, time
Space, mass
Matters that matter but not
God you're interesting
What are you keeping behind that veil
So beautiful, so kind
Made words enough to express
Oh the One that toys with my heart
Fascinate me with your stories

Dear angel on my right
There's something you're hiding from us
Is it interesting? Are they what they seem?
One day we'll share our tales
Sitting on the sky
You already know my share
It's time to tell me yours
Dear angel on my left,
Thank you for everything

At sunrise they took me
In front of the crowd
Onto the platform
So I stood
And I looked at the sky
And the infinity beyond
Warm sea breeze on the cliff
Ah, I thought
What serenity...

I'm so thrilled
What does death feel like
And the life after that
I won't turn back
I can't turn back
So I'll just look forward
Anticipating a new start
My heart beats so fast
But my excitement was disturbed by a tap on my shoulder
And I was asked
To give my last word

Last word?
That's tough
So many things to conclude in one sentence
Humans' laws are so funny

"Se came in a strange manner,
And se's leaving in a strange manner,
Se's leaving, my brethrens,
Se's leaving..."

Friday, April 23, 2010

Forbidden Time

Now as I look back
As I tear open a veil called time
There's a portrait of me
In a way I recognize no longer
I knew it, people just change
Maybe that's what interesting
I took down the portrait
And wrapped it neatly in memories

What surprise
One I've not had in a long time
Se had a few pieces missing
Now I hold a fragment of the puzzle
Then I put it in place
Just another piece could be so significant

I added another scene to my life
Just that and the stars appeared again
They gazed at me giggling
I couldn't help but grin
Coz I really have no idea
Since when I could hold out a hand
Reaching into what we call earth
Here I found what I needed

I buried memories in laughter
And kept it beside solitude
I locked the door called past
And drew shut the veil called time