You can survive alone but not live

To live is to share and rejoice together

Laugh and cry with some other

To lean on someone and get a hug

To spend time with timeless love

Live

I'd better stop living in your day dreams

No matter how lovely they maybe

Soon I'll have to wake up to reality

I am submerged as you float

Deep in the fog of illusion

Blinded to see only what I please

Paddling happily over the confusion

I maybe lost but I cant help it

I've tried to wave it off

The choices you make aren't always yours

You've found the path to Lost

Just like You can't say the punchline before the joke

Or reveal the mystery before the story

You have to wait for the perfect time to say how you feel

Silence, unspoken words

Smiles and tears

Unexpressed emotions, unexplained gestures

Trust and fears

Thinning the grins that made us squint

Erasing the memories that we built

Breaking the sand castles we spoke of

Washing it with the next wave

Maria Yousuf

I was a spectator in your circus show

Watched as you did what I asked you not to

But the consequences wouldn't be yours to face

You'd just walk away without a trace

You drew me in and left me standing

In the ring ablaze with fire

I hadn't learned those tricks, didn't know how

So I stood helpless without a savior

I stood among the chaos

The chaos that you had sparked

A penalty of you faults,

A penalty you had called

Maria Yousuf

Entranced, inebriated

Vigilant of what's happening

But incognizant of how

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I want to get away from recognition

Live in lost solitude

No one to quesetion me or worry unnecessarily

Be left alone... on my own

Maria Yousuf

I want twirl with the violent winds

Ballet with the intensity of a storm

I want to be inebriated with passion

Before my breath is gone

Maria Yousuf

Silence Scares Me

Silence scares me

Its static screams in my ears

Alerting me of the stark surroundings

It chokes me, encloses me

A reincarnation of my ancient enemy

It alerts me of the predator around me

The emptiness of nobody

I feel the palpable darkness

Of standing alone

Silence scares me

Scares me as it screams

Maria Yousuf

Whats not meant to be will never be

No fist full of sand will stay

No grain of time will sway

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I don't follow constellations,

I make my own

And that one leads me to your heart

Haiku By Maria Yousuf

You see that cloud up in the sky?

The one that looks like a smile?

That's me when I'm with you

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A soft ache, a tender tear

Finger loosely locked

The yearning to remain near

As Shakespeare quotes in Romeo and Juliet

"Parting is such sweet sorrow"

Maria Yousuf

In the heart of a bud of tender petals

Lies your vulnerable innocent beauty

You soul

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I found a diamond

A diamond that outshone all gems and jewels

Your heart

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Pot of Gold

It's the other side of the rainbow where I wish to go

To get that pot full of gold

The gold of your friendship and presence

The gold of our bond and understanding

All glitter may not be gold

But I know what is

You are...

You are My pot of gold

Twin Poetry: Reality

Enveloped in the fog of dreams

Drenched in their belief

Lost on the path of fantasies

What is my reality?

Khawaboon key dund mey lipti hui

Unn key yaqeen mein bheeghi hui

Kahaniyoon ki rahoon mein khoeei hui

Kia hai meri haqeeqat?

Maria Yousuf

Yeah...

You made me a stranger in your affairs...

Now you are a stranger in my life...

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A friendship has faded

Vanished in the wind

When you don't feel like talking

Or know how to begin

So adieu to you

Eroded promises

Maria Yousuf