I can own all the knowledge I can carry in my vessel of understanding but it all would be useless unless implemented in the scripture of my life...

Maria Yousuf

Why does it seem to me

That my words are a bokeh you hear?

A blur in the background

That makes your picture complete?

Stanza By Maria Yousuf

I watch you twirl in the rain

And hear you symbolically say

Gray days are worth a shot

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

Your countenance

is the reflection

of your demeanor

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

Disputes are common

Solutions can be found

Just don't let yourself down

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

Don't let silence

Be the mold

That may decay our life

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

There are a million reason

Why I'd spend

My life with you

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

Tears aren't water

I'll see them even in the sea

If you try and hide them from me

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

I want to soak in the gray rainy day

Taste the romance of a 'Near Touch'

And feel the flavor of 'So Close yet Far Away'

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

Colors have been washed out, faded

Yet they remain a dull remembrance

Of the tears that wiped them

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

My shield isn't bullet proof

Every time you fire your words

I hurt with a deep wound

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

I wear an armor protecting my soul

An armor that conceals me

From the rest of the world

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

I am the breeze that evokes happy chimes within your heart

One that brings about your lost smile

And makes your pulse flutter

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

Be a warrior against your worst enemy, your own self

For you are the only one who can drag yourself to Hell

The worst of all penalties

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

If you are willing to see, you can find beauty even in an empty room...

Maria Yousuf

I'm waiting for the right season to embrace the warmth I am willing to share...

Maria Yousuf

You are a casket encased with emotions waiting for the right key to unlock you...

Maria Yousuf

Its when you face life that you know its tough and that is when you realize that its only the beginning

Maria Yousuf

.:Symphonic Dawn:.

It chimes into presence, sings beauty

It sews the hymn of the season, spans the horizon slowly

The melody is tangible, the sweetness savory

The music exquisite, the taste heavenly

I am seized in the rhythm I hear

Caught among the the cover it wears

I steal a peek before it's gone

I am seized in the symphonic dawn

Maria Yousuf

I dislike those who serve as gravity to my flight to success and my endeavors.

I shall show you how high I can fly without flying as high as Icarus

Maria Yousuf

If

the one meant to be relied upon isn't reliable

What do you do?

.:DisAdvantage:.

I like to speak my mind so I will

I was exposed to truth of art

I understand and intend to implement it

But then after

An image appeared

Convicting me

And wrong as it was

I couldn't show the other side of the tale

I tried but was eschewed

When I flew to exit

I was condemned

But I disappeared anyway

Now I think

My position is at a disadvantage

For no matter how or what my sketch

It shall always be scorned

If I have complaints about the medium or ambiance

Whom should I turn to?

If I turn to the Head

I will be Persona non Grata

When I turn to the one who could alter

I am not aided

What else do I do?

I don't know whom to turn to

Thus now I decide to endure

And HOPE to forever do so

Though I do know the editor does help

But only sometimes

Often I'm among the blacklisted

And I know the problems will always find escape

They shall never be chained

Now or ever

Because they have the one support that matters

The acceptance of everyone else

Not quite everyone

Just that one

Who is counted as everyone

So to my disadvantage and bad luck

No its not self pity

I fear I am disdained

And shall be

I am scorned

And shall remain being so

I am unfortunate

Yet hope that doesn't last

Maria Yousuf

They will question me

But wont ever question about me

I'll come through for them

But I wonder will they ever come through for me?

Maria Yousuf

Because of you I'm broken

Without a supporting base I'm shaken

All I am is empty and barren

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

As soon as the last word is spoken

All that was before

Ends forgotten

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

Your sacrifices are always forgotten

Your intentions always unknown

What you want always misunderstood

Then again all your wishes dont always come true

Quatrain By Maria Yousuf

I'm reaching for change

Looking for another path, another way

To walk through to everyday

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

I see strawberries and chocolate

And I imagine a warm fire place

But its all an image in my head

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

Eternity sacrifices appeal

Forever is no more real

So instead

These are the wishes I speak and seal

I wish we would spend our lives together

Grow old together

Spend our last breaths together

And be untied in death as we part

Maria Yousuf

You can be the vampire who turns me

Or sucks my blood dry

I'll always find a way

To have you chasing me

Quatrain By Maria Yousuf

My words walk on thin ice

One misstep

And I shall be submerged in lies

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

I'm sitting with weapons of mass destruction

Ones that would demolish my integrity

Those weapons will only be found within me

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

.:Thunder:.

Thunder may overtake the recesses of your subconscious thoughts

Murder your spontaneity, lead you in a corner and leave you cowering

It may take you back in abeyance, eschew your power of will

Silence your speech of intelligence and hold your tongue against your deal

It may reach out to you from the shade of a mere skeleton tree

Blind your ingenuity and deafen your capacity of comprehension

It will scare you and frighten you

Just to have you hold on to that fright of nothing

Don't let the blood of fright stain your entity

Fright only makes you braver

Face the storm and make yourself stronger

You know you are much more than what you think you might be

Maria Yousuf

.:Dedicated to Uki:.

You sparked my dreams

Took me through a fairytale

Gave me memories to grasp

A lifeline to help me set sail

Held my hand for security

Supported me through rough waves

But then you brought the sky crashing down on me

When I got to know you got married

The fairytale was now hell

Those memories mere broken threads

Your security nothing more than holding hands

Falsehoods was all you said

It was all a lie

I trusted you and believed you

And you returned the favor

By not seeing your promises through

Maria Yousuf

I said I wont

But my ancient pillars are crumbling and I need support

I don't know who will be the lock to my treasure

Or the vessel that holds my heart

But I do know I need someone's hand to hold

Maria Yousuf

I will eschew it all away

That's what I say

But at every hour of repetition

I cry

Quatrain By Maria Yousuf

I capture images

Preserve ideas

And steal a moment in time

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

The only way you can get through

Is while being you

No one needs another one of someone else

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

I am torn shore to shore

not knowing which waves to battle

Obfuscated about truths told

an ocean keeping me walls apart

Maria Yousuf