Of Endeavours Blue Quotes

“The Moth and Its Beloved

Ask the moth the beauty of the candle
And it will burn without a confession
There is a secret to its longing
For it feels no fear or hesitation

The moth is too much in love with the flame Yet it does not appear under the sun
For the moon’s light is far too feeble, and
It gave up on its pursuit of the sun

Just a sight of a candle is enough
To remind it of its real beloved
So it settles for that candle in reach,
Revels in its heat, and asks to be burned”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“I know surely you’re thinking of me, for
I am strange, and you’re kind to the stranger”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“But what good are scars if they do not ache?
And what good are eyes if they do not weep?

What good is desire if it does not hurt?
What good is a passion if it stays ‘sleep?”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“The more I loved you the more I found me”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“These fragments, these shivers of my heart
Are mere lifetimes enclosed in a minute”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“If your heart begins to carry burdens
And you begin to feel your soul benight

For you, perhaps, you may become heavy
For me, my love, you will ever be light”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“What agenda does this universe have?
What game is it I am oblivious to?”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“Listen well, as I speak of my upsurge;
For I’m a lover, without a lover

I am a flame, without a combustion
I am a novice, without a mentor

I am a healer, without a wounded
I am a winner, without a trophy

I’m a captain, without a devotee
And above all, I’m alone – not lonely”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“Sage of old held desire as suffering
But suffering is desire as known to me”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“Often it’s hard to differ pain and joy,
Some give up on differentiating”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“Find me, as time is a luxury
For I wait, under this naïve moon”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“There should be a limit to my suffering
As I’m a sinner, not a disbeliever”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“My poetry has been engraved with your name
And my heart is by your memory scarred”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue

“The moments spent with the beloved are
Why, today, there is a loneliness
The eyes that illuminated this world
Are now gone to light up this sheer darkness”
― Zubair Ahsan, Of Endeavours Blue