Shaikh Ashraf's Blog: Shaikh Ashraf Writes, page 9

Remain Still

Remain still, let me capture you,

Stay put, let me take you all in,

Remain still, let me have you the way I always wanted,

Stay warm, let me fall in love with you, again and again.

Your stillness speaks alot, through your eyes the lights shine,

Your stillness provokes anguish, fear and I let go of who I am,

Your being there, not being there is one and the same,

My being here and not being here is one and the same.

We aren’t here, we aren’t together,

But, yet, the way our souls root for each other,

The way our hearts beat,

The way our nights go staying awake in utter loneliness,

Makes, we wonder, we are together, even if we aren’t.

Remain still, in my dreams, let me capture you,
Stay put, in my dreams, let me take you all in,
Remain still, in my dreams, let me have you the way I wanted,
Stay warm, let me love you and keep falling in love with you, again and again.

© Ashraf Shaikh

End Me

Yearning for water in the desert,
Running miles for it, soaked with sweat, dead with hunger,
Yearning for water in the desert,
Walking miles, only to see nothing, but a mirage.

Evoking passion for you deep into the soul,
Fulfilling that passion, with dread, joy, and love,
Evoking passion for you deep into the soul,
Running, chasing, you, only to find nothing, but a mirage of you.

Your beauty burns through me,
Pops out my veins and there boils all the desires,
Your elegance, cools off me, makes the heaviest of anger go away,
You burn inside me, and I burn with you.

Still, chasing you, with passion,
Running with thirst,
Walking miles in hunger, I end up in middle of nowhere,
Only to find, Nothing, but a mirage.

Quench me off this thirst,
Fill my desires, pop open my veins,
Let my body bleed with your love, your desires, your passion,
For I am tired, chasing your mirage,
Rip me off my desires, shed my love, and, end me.

© Ashraf Shaikh

Your Hostage

Delicate as the glass,

Shatters and pokes in skin,

Breaks away every form of old memory,

That is what you’ve done to me.

All thought erased from memory,

All love and hatred erased,

Only left inside is SILENCE and YOU,

That is what you’ve done to me.

I was a happy man, living a happy life,

I was a dreamy, guy living a dreamy life,

Now, I am stuck under the ruins of beauty, love and passion,

That is what you’ve done to me.

You’ve taken me as your hostage,

You’ve kept me in dark place from where escaping is impossible,

You’ve broken me into thousand pieces, and every piece pokes right through my heart,

That is what you’ve done to me.

Of all the agonies aside,

Of all the pain, suffering and wounds that you’ve given me, aside,

Of all the love and hate, I have gone through aside,

I don’t know why, I keep loving you.

Stuck, trapped, like a hostage,

In your beauty and love,

Of all the things you’ve done to me, aside,

I don’t know why, I still continue to Love, You.

© Ashraf Shaikh

You

Ask the countless nights,

Ask the endless days,

Ask the thirsty wind,

My every thought has you.

Ask the mundane life,

Ask the insane world,

Ask my sunken soul,

My every imagination has you.

Ask the nightly thirst,

Ask the daytime hunger,

Ask the morning blossom,

My every day starts and ends with you.

Ask the fallen rain,

Ask the departed train,

Ask the painful sprain,

My every wound us healed by you.

Somewhere I lived a thousand lives,

Somewhere I fought a thousand battles,

Somewhere I wrote a thousand stories,

For you, only for you.

Ask those thousand stories,

Ask those thousand battles,

Ask those thousand lives,

My every pain, my every wound, my every happiness,

My every desire, my every dream,

Is for you, was for you,

Will be, forever for only, You.

© Ashraf Shaikh

Intoxicant

Love is a poison, I learnt after meeting you,

Love is a drug, I learnt after having you,

You were some other kind of alcohol, that stabbed right into my heart,

You were some intoxicant that burned me apart.

Still after having you for one time, I’m still intoxicated,

After seeing you for one time, I am still high,

All I see is you, all I want was you,

Oh, stranger what kind of intoxicant are you?

© Ashraf Shaikh

When I First Saw You

Ears buzzing, eyes twitching,

Legs shaking, hands trembling,

Me, dancing all around in anxiety,

That was me, when I first saw you.

Soul rendered a deep wound,

Heart ached to it, my hands were all over my notebook,

It wrote poetries that day,

That was me, when I first saw you.

My head wandered around thousand thoughts,

My eyes saw right through you,

My whole body shivering with love,

That was me, when you first saw you.

You were so innocent like a child,

You were so perfect like an artist,

You were so, you in your perfect self,

Here I was, lonely and depressed,

That was me, when I first saw you.

Shivering, withering,

Soul suffering, heart aching,

Hands writing poetry on their own,

Mind rendering beautiful imagery,

That was me, when I first saw you.

Deep ridden with loneliness,

Deep into the realms of glory,

Deep stuck in my own constraints,

You freed me from my own prison.

That was me, when I first saw you.

© Ashraf Shaikh

Rain

You’re like the smell of first rain,

The water gushing down the hot land and cooling it down,

You’re like the heavy rain,

When it comes it shatters all the humid hot climate of earth and changes everything.

You’re like the first rain,

You pour down drop by drop beautifully into the world,

You’re like the last rain,

Falling heavily and withering every bit of pain.

You’re like that smell of wet mud in rain,

You relax me whenever I’m in pain,

You’re like a storm, where everyone whirlpools around your beauty.

You carry a risk of losing life,

You carry a risk of a heartbreak,

You posses the demon of love inside you,

To poison the whole world with it.

Just like rain pours down heavily on the earth,

Fills the hot land with water, and moistens the dry land,

And leaves after staying for a good time,

You’re that to me.

You came into my life, filled me with my dreams,

You came flying like an angel and waved it’s wand,

Then suddenly you left, leaving me dry and hot,

Now I suffer everyday, like the earth suffers without rain.

You’re like the first and last rain,

Who comes into people’s lives with ecstasy,

And leaves them with agony and pain.

© Ashraf Shaikh

Unfulfilled

Why does my everyday start with you,

Why does my everyday end with you,

Why does all the memories lay awake once again when I look at you,

Why does the heart ache again when I see you.

You’re that one whose mere presence affects me,

You’re that one whose mere thoughts fills me with passion,

You’re that one for whom I have set upon my dreams on fire,

Why does my every thought have you gripped up.

I don’t have that much to give you,

Nor do I really want you,

Still whenever I see you smile,

I want that moment to never end.

Your every smile moved me,

Your every cry left me angered,

Your everything left me broken,

Why do I still remember you.

In my every thought you live,

In my every imagination you are,

Maybe nothing happened between us,

Maybe we both are hungry for each other.

We had just attraction between us,

But we never acted upon it,

We had just friendship between us,

But we never made it further.

Maybe some desires are left awake,

Some passions unfulfilled,

Maybe some dreams are still alive,

Some love still beating in our hearts unfulfilled.

© Ashraf Shaikh

Oh Stranger!

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Oh stranger, there you sit in one corner of the world,

Here I sit in another corner, eyeing you from top to bottom.

Oh stranger, there you look elegantly outside the window towards the beautiful world,

Here I look peeking towards you.

You look happy to be in this world of cruelty,

You look enthusiastic towards those cruel men,

Who only have one goal in mind whenever they look at you,

Oh stranger, walk this path of life a little slow, for there are a lot of crocodiles to eat you alive.

Tread carefully the path of love, oh stranger,

For you might break your heart,

Live carefully the life of limited days, oh my stranger,

For the days in this world is limited, might shatter your dreams apart.

Hold my hand once, once for all my life,

Trust me once, once for all my life,

Come with me to the place where I’ll make all your dreams into reality,

Come with me where love will be a never ending game.

Oh my stranger, I sit here with brokenness inside me,

Do You sit there with yours,

I sit here with a thousand thoughts about you,

Do you sit there with yours about me.

If you leave today, for forever, I won’t be able to find you,

I’ll ask the wind, I’ll ask the sky,

Where’s the stranger with angelic beauty?

Where’s the stranger with the brightness of a goddess?

© Ashraf Shaikh.

Oh My Love, Oh My Goddess

Those eyes were full of passion,

That passion spoke of music of all the worlds,

Those lips were full of poison,

The poison I wanted to taste.

Those hair were all ponytail,

It danced the way she walked, left right, left right,

Those hands and nimble fingers were so tiny,

I ever wanted them to hold my hands.

When I first saw you, oh my love,

I sailed on the whirlpool of emotions,

When I first saw you, oh my love,

I danced around of the desire of love.

When you waved that ponytail around,

My heart waved over and over,

When you talked through your deep goddess voice,

My soul bend over to pray to you.

Oh my Goddess, where you are,

Meet me in between of the world,

The place where there’s no right no wrong,

The place where nothing exist.

Oh my Goddess, where you are,

Meet me in a place,

A place destroyed and abandoned,

Where only you and I live.

When you look at me through those eyes,

I feel naked all over,

No matter how much I hide,

Your eyes always takes out something from me.

You’re that presence that rocks me up,

That surges me up with energy,

I don’t sleep for days and nights,

I only yearn for your time.

Oh my love, oh my Goddess,

Don’t look at me like that,

For the heavens and earth will start uniting, to make this story work,

But, I don’t want you in my life,

Because you’re too perfect for me.

© Ashraf Shaikh