Someday the Stars
Mir Reenaz Nawar 2006 (Dhaka)
It’s dark where I live, and it’s very cold too.
Here the seas are green, the grass is blue,
And silence is the loudest noise you can make.
And not a single soul can whisper
Nor could a heart so much as prosper
Thus, it’s just the lonely roads I take.
I am naught but a ghost of something I was,
I am naught but the echo of screams.
I am but a prisoner to my own words,
I am naught but a shatter of dreams
So, it’s through the lonely roads I walk.
Somedays the stars shine with warmth and light,
When I’m all alone and cold at night
Somedays the stars sing my praise
But most days they’re a distant haze
So I fly through the lonely skies, like a hawk.
For surely I don’t need the light,
If all I could want is there at night
Surely I don’t need
Lullabies to sing me to sleep
For the silence, it reaches so deep
Enough for me to breathe
As it cuts through me and leaves me to bleed.
I need only the lonely, incessant rains
Anchors aweigh;
I’m fighting a devil who takes on many forms.
The devil is me –
But I refuse to have another soul perish in my storms
I’m caught up in my own hurricanes
And so, I choose to sail through the lonely seas
Amidst the chilling and salty breeze
Here I will die and here I will wake.
Where the waves are a tall and menacing being
With a mind of its own, it stops me from fleeing
How cruel is it that I’ve naught but the lonely paths to take?
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