Some fine morning You will wake up Like from a dream And realise that All the trappings of your life That nice condo The fast cars The fancy things Never really mattered And what you thought was important That big job That bold business card The numbers you had to hit They were mere details Necessary perhaps, at some point But never truly sufficient And what really mattered was How you were loved How you loved in return The blessings you had And how you showed gratitude for those blessings I pray we wake up soon I pray for me, and for you.
On JJCM
Over steaming bowls Of pulled noodles, we forge this Bond of brotherhood.
Tentang Subuh
Jerit kokok tegas bergema
Kicau burung memujuk rawan
Hening pagi menggamit mesra
Aku sujud padamu Tuhan
On Heaven’s Tears
Thunder roars in the Sky as heaven's tears fall on The dark grey tarmac.
On Dark Judgment
These brooding clouds, they
Gather in dark judgment like
A murder of crows.
On Those Drops of Jupiter
Did you fall for a Shooting star? You left - I know Now that it's your loss.
On The Inexpressible
Between these lines I Try vainly to express the Inexpressible.
On Finding Peace (It’s Not Your Fault)
It's not your fault That he left you It's not your fault And there is nothing wrong with you He just did not know How to be What he needed to be For you And for himself It's not your fault It never was.
On Three Hundred Days
Ev’ry day these three
Hundred days, I write down words
To ward off the Dark.
On This Teahouse (Amiability)
I have come so far
And it is only forty years later
That I can now feel
The inexorable
inviolable
inescapable pull of gravity
Anchoring me here
In amiable exile
I have everything I need
Here
Except for the buried treasure
Of finally seeing myself
And loving myself
With fullest acceptance.