Give In

Most things are better left unsaid.
You feel your heart clench and hold in the scream that threatens to escape.
Ache spreads within but silence has you chained
Not allowed to say what you feel.
From the beginning to the end
You accept that hurt and make it your destiny, your fate.
You don't try because conscience has cuffed you
You don't try because the right decisions have seized you
You Don't Try, You Give In

Maria Yousuf

Composed of You

You live in my every beat 

I may forget you in your silence

But when you reappear

Your presence reminds me 

That my heart is wholly composed by you

Every inch of my heart testifies

That you've come back

I am composed of you

Maria Yousuf

Lets sink our feet in the grains of sand
Feel the warmth course through
Lets let the tides lap at our feet
Be alone with silence me and you

Maria Yousuf

An impending danger lurks and I follow into it sane
Just to be lost and not found again

Lost in the maze of my identity

The maze that defines me

Following the print on my fingers

Incognizant to their presence

Maria Yousuf

It drips from the bristles onto the smooth surface

Sweet and bold

As it journeys further

It fades to weak

Life...watercolors

Maria Yousuf

I wouldn't want tears over my corpse

Wouldn't want wails biding me goodbye

I wouldn't want sorrow shadowing my coffin

Or thoughts of a sad demise

I'd want smiles on the faces of my fare wells

Would want joy to shelter my memory

I'd want gratitude for my final journey

And prayers of forgiveness as my canopy

Make me not a memory or a dream

I was born to be buried

Am living to die

And breathing to be tested

Eventually, I'll fade away

Maria Yousuf

A pang of hurt

Breaks and spreads

Invites unidentifiable silence and tears

Maria Yousuf

My sentiments are easily bruised

Sometimes I know, often I don't

My throbbing silence testifies something is wrong

Maria Yousuf

Hurt courses through my veins

Stings my being

A splinter in my smile

Until it finds an exit through my tears

Maria Yousuf