TLC

Tender, Loving, Comparable
he says
Tender, Lost and Calm
she says
Love, ever the dictator
tears them apart,
They are hook and sinker'd
By the ring that encloses them
Never be free,
lonely with thee.

~

Dead flowers bow out

Waves of pity

Clash with my ambience

Isolation overcomes

My acute awareness

to the folly

of our relationship's myth.


- By Laila Ali Haid

Zipped and Unlocked

Three Zips unlock
a damaged soul
a torn heart
and ?
the second zip
revels
in shrouded beauty
the third reveals
broken love as art
the first -
well that zipper don't work
it is naked and bare to the
unsheathed eye
that my love is alien
it is a force in a cell
imprisoned by madness
caught by cupid's flame
soaked in unrequited
despair and war,
hate.

- By Laila Ali Haid

Shallowness

Are you/we shallow?

I would say a quite high percentage of people I have come across in my life are really shallow, in the sense that they take advantage of others easily and would readily rank you low in their self-concocted hierarchy one they find out you're different to them and others in their friendship network. Still learning to love others and wish them well so I don't become a big meany lol.


- By Laila Ali Haid