Head churning with confusion, Thoughts a chaos Death - Majestic and infinite Among infernal stars The deathless Each day clouded somber wishes Heart ripped from my chest, Dread takes me Life - Contemplated veiling And concealing of memories The lifeless Each day balancing nightmare's edge Eyes running thick with tears, Visions fade Love - My hand in yours Started a storm at sunset The loveless Each day in silent emptiness Emotions unbound, Escaping everywhere (Arifa Isabel - December 2005)
Love Letters
Dead and cold, like leafless trees Still forests, calm lakes, images of death And nature’s sleep, frozen moments Memories flowing out, feelings creep within By ancient light and crying crowned My admiring heart, touches winter Hopes for a meaning, in the still life Of one touch, one gentle thought Held by love, the ice inside Emotions hide, but words return With first snow (Arifa Isabel - November 2005)
Gone
All left is the image of your face Don’t know how to miss you Don’t want to miss you Everyone leaves Everyone hates Everyone but themselves The white rose on my knee For someone I’ve never met… Sadness in beauty Sadness in pain All I needed to say Can never be said Love in life What is there in death? All left now is me But time flies Softens the wounds, the pain I never wished it Never wanted it Everything dies… (Arifa Isabel - September 2005)
Approaching Summer
Seeing it in my mind The sparkle in your eyes A frosty sunrise in my soul Hearing your voice My spirit flies with every word And I hold my breath Happiness spreads in me Your heartbeat my home There’s fresh water far below With rapids white and restless Rumbling like my feelings Quietly in the land Holding on, letting go Loving you, missing you Dark, serene and precious Light in the centre of my life Hope giving, purest beauty Slowly awakening now The afternoon has faded Looking ahead alone The future strikes with fear Remembering your touch I shiver and close my eyes A longing deep inside makes Tears form in my eyes They flow down my face And rest in my neck halting Agony at the gates Leading to my deepest thoughts Little white flowers with Sun-like centres growing Between grass and weeds At my feet while I listen To the sound of water running An owl lives in this tree That I’m leaning back against It goes hunting in the night Swiftly gliding through the air Silent, unseen until the second It snatches its prey Each time the sun goes down In faint shimmering nightlight A little creature dies A sudden chill is in the air I wrap my arms around myself Yet already cold inside Should I let you go to find Another to love and hold A slight breeze moves my hair And whispers in my ear It’s not your choice or his (Arifa Isabel - April 2005)
Darklight
Entering, there’s nothing… Just the night and I… I walk. A tree appears before me Its bark rough and dry, Its limbs overshadowing In the night, disappearing. Glints of colour, could be Faintly glittering in moonlight, A crown on each shadow’s rim. Intenser I look, more And more they spring out… Saying things uninterpretable. Their speech and call I guess, Slowly like my sight Consciousness changes, something Deep inside awakens. Clearer my sight clearer perception One thousand million times… I hear their voice inside, Turning away overwhelmed Walking through the semi-dark. Shades of shadow, await, enclose Brown and black and gold. There’s a sound of a stir A rustle shatters peaceful silence In my heart, my breath stops, In a fragment of fear. Something’s alive closeby And unseen… Frozen, waiting, expecting. Stronger my heart, relief Gains, cold air turns, skin warms. Trickling sound of water Gliding over rocks and pebbles Feeding the green, inspiring Life in the ground beneath. My transparent flesh The sound cleanses, My feelings, my mind I can see. Mirroring each drop, thoughts Become mine, where they go Or linger in the light dark, I’ll find out, discerning One thousand million stars More than diamonds sparkle. Like crystal gleams, eternally In the water running By my feet, reaching. Flesh meets the fresh glitter Like satin touching, chilling I touch my forehead… It induces, me to settle down Near it in old light only reaching Now, us beings of cruelty and hate. The nightblue above, lilac Shades creeping, One thousand million shards Trickle above, could there be Could they have seen, Somewhere in the expanse Maybe just one, A creature pure and clear like My thoughts a moment before? (Arifa Isabel - April 2005)
Thoughts of…
Those words make me admire… You More than anything I’ve ever respected… That dark hair makes me adore… You More than anything I’ve ever loved… Those songs make me appreciate… You More than anything I’ve ever longed for… That smile makes me want… You More than anything I’ve ever cherished… Those thoughts make me caress… You Slower than you’d be able to endure… That gentle touch makes me accept… You Before I even know you… Those blue eyes make me miss… You Faster than you or I can blink… That breathing makes me sleep… Next to you Forever in my dreams… Your presence lightens my existence… More Than anything I’ve ever expected… (Arifa Isabel - April 2005)
In The Dark
Her grey eyes shine like omens of death. They ever searched the sea for a sign, ever. Within them captured deep sadness, despair but strength unseen. Their beauty just seldom witnessed here. By the sea, never they shine with light of old and mystery grown. Reminiscing of fate before. In them, past lingering. Fate befell on the isle doom alike, the same. Abandoned for war. The white tree growing watched. Her grey eyes now shone in weariness, ever. And the elven bird’s song relentlessly sent forth. Bitterness arose where knowledge decayed. Cast in the depths crystallized by the burden of grief and joy once known. Hope perished together alongside wisdom. Of that same light of happiness, vanished. They shine no more, never. Too great the burden. Of no avail the child whose laughter faltered. Ever. (Arifa Isabel - April 2005)
Blackness
The circle is round Oh? Do you say wondering With eyes wide open Ignorant of cause And effect connected Perhaps not ignorance But fear of failure The mind tries masking it By introducing colours And shades reflecting Convincing our conscience We can all go ahead Destroying our world in peace Without punishment or death (Arifa Isabel - March 2005)
Hopeless
The waves desire me Will or do I desire them Would I let them and surrender The waves come to me However they can and will They’re death in physical form The waves tell untruths Hoping to weaken the heart Shake the soul, unstable The waves are beautiful Like sirens in fisherman’s tales Singing sweetly threatening The waves are in our hearts Awakening sadness and insecurity To us it’s fate to be tempted The waves we must weaken Stop them at the borders of Our mind strong as steel The waves come to us As flowers in grassy places Fresh as snowy air and moist The waves slowly cause our mind To rust, crumble, perish Only ruined hope left behind The waves feel our inner strength And anticipate our weakness And hate, destroying the steel The waves are deceiving Obscuring thoughts, turning them Towards forgetfulness and bliss The waves we try to obstruct With joy, prayer and belief Always in vain attempting (Arifa Isabel - March 2005)
Forever
Screen transparent, maybe Might we pass through or Is it just a flicker In the expanding mind Desiring to be like the Wind, unknown origin No boundaries of stone Or earth or tree Ever free and lawless A mystery created By the wonders of the world Shaped in our thoughts (Arifa Isabel - March 2005)
Arifa Isabel 
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