I miss those days
When I played in sunbeams
Floating like dust particles
Dancing in the sun
Casting shadows on the street and the walls
Ethereal and sparking
Imagining that I was a magical entity
Filled with happiness
Uncontainable
Overflowing like champagne foam
Dancing to my own tune
No care in the world
And in my imagination
I was a witch and you my familiar
Beloved and warm like Wiccan crystals
Our random bursts of laughter
Irrepressible
My happiness around you
Like oxytocin in my blood
Until everything and anything looked beautiful
This high I never came out of
Heart bursting with love
How I miss those days
When I played with sunbeams
Running my hands through the light
I could feel them
With a cheeky wink like Sabrina
I could bend them, no?
How you laughed at my silliness
With love in your eyes
How I miss those days.
"Retrospection" by Sofi Saeed
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I attempted to carve myself a corner in your garden
To enrich my life with some colour and vibrance
Like a peacock shuddering his feathers
Begging for your kind attention
In my hubris, perhaps, I had conveniently forgotten
That all colour began leeching out
The very day I first met you
Until the soil under my feet were dry and grey
Until the air I breathed were dull
Lifeless much like soul
In my arrogance, I had spurned basic comprehension
Like a fool giving myself away
Inch by inch, piece by piece
Until all that remained were the atoms that you rejected
Self recrimination and a mountain of hatred
So away I go now, to find myself
And perhaps in search of a little peace
Permanence, and maybe a place to rest
Away I go to the cold embrace of my ocean
"A happy marriage" by Sofi Saeed
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I look to you in my darkest hour
Filled with rage and envy
Hoping to catch a glimpse
Of a soul deemed worthy
One
Pure and protected
Bright white and clean like the winter's snow
Wishing
With my entire being
That this
Shredded unclean thing of mine
Can be wiped clear of the rot
Of days old blood
Mended whole
This blade that my soul was welded into
To be of use
For the protection of those not mine
But those most undeserving
Ungrateful.
But when the rage of this sword eclipses the sun
And blankets the Earth with soot, ash and fire
Turns air into noxious poison and death
Inevitable
Would the snow be able to purify the dirt
Or will it become one with the world
Same as us
Most unclean
Like sludge and mud
“Inevitable turns” by Sofi Saeed
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There are choices we make in life, both good and bad. The choices either push you one or two steps forward, leaves you stationary or pushes you backwards. Think, Newton's laws of motion. That applies to life too. However, there are some choices, that don't feel like choices, for they almost feel coercive in nature, by the environment you were brought up in. Like take this girl, she has an absentee father who she worships, an absentee mother who she's indifferent to, a step mother who is cruel to her, and a plethora of aunts and uncles who reared her in their stead. They tell her to be good, to be kind, to be righteous, to smile, and most importantly obedient. They say that her worth is tied to her beauty and her womb. They tell her that her purpose in life is to be a wife and then a mother. They tell her that the only way for her to go forward in life is tied to a man. They fill her head to the point of over saturation until she defines her self worth in her husband's smiles, his laughs, his letters, and his words. Only, in opposition to her dreams and expectations, her life with her husband starts withering. His smiles are slow to come, his laughs turn mocking, his letters come once in a blue moon and his words trickle to a stop. And yet she loves him, or she convinces herself that she loves him. Because her path forward is tied to him. Her self worth is defined by her waning beauty and her dysfunctional womb. His gaze starts roving, her confidence starts diminishing. His words become cutting, and her self loathing pikes. In her desperation, she ignores his rancid breath, she convinces herself that it smells like flowers instead. In her desperation she scripts his cruel grasp into loving embraces. In her desperation she turns her bleeding core into arousal. Coercion? It is a husband's right - her path forward is tied to him. That desperation gifts her with two children. Only the two children are girls - and a part of her soul breaks down in grief, because she has brought into this world two innocent girls who will face the same cruelty she did. Will face the same coercive choices she did. Who will be weak and will need the protection of a man, the same way she does. A part of her resents it. Resents the children she begot. However she has no choice now but to take the steps forward. A step backwards means the grave, stationary also means the grave, and the grave spells death for her two daughters. Her poor innocent daughters. But innocent they don't remain, meek they are not, fierce they become, rage they breathe. When she least expects it, her daughters question her on her choices. After listening to her story, they say, 'Perhaps the grave would have been a better choice for us after all'. Her heart breaks.
“Choices” by Sofi Saeed
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We are all born
With a predestined purpose
A tragic sense of discomfort
Awash in the air we breathe
Our dreams are prophetic
They show us the shackles
That enclose our limbs
Binding them together
Our wells turn into poison
Our creativity ebbs
It leaves us lifeless
Like butterflies with scarred wings
Do you see a path for us?
When you envision our lives
It seems so microscopic
The dimensions you have laid out
Will you deny us?
Deny our suffocation
Can we demand freedom?
Or is it death we should seek?
“Shackles” by Sofi Saeed
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They call me crazy
When I am just blue
They hate it when I am muted
But the palette I prefer is too murky
Sometimes too deep,
Too dark, too threatening
So I go by the masses
And use the soft shades of rainy days
To paint the background of this life
Keeping in mind to remind them
Of opaque bottomless waters
The stormy seas on a thunderous day
Like the eyes of their violent fathers
And their co-dependent mothers
The colours that bring about a sense
One of sadness and helplessness
Of loneliness and keen frustration
Shades that make more apparent
That I am not where I'm supposed to be
Not the life of the party, no, no!
I'm meant more for the fringes
Like a shy wallflower peeking in
Always peering in to the warmth
Of this cumbersome noisy society
I don’t hate it, it gives more security
I promise!
It’s just existing in muted colours
Soft fuzzy shades of grey and blue
That bring to mind the existence of dreams
Soft sleepy ones, making one lethargic
Perhaps reminding you of lonely hearts
Is preferable to being awake and judged
By the likes of you.
‘My preferred palette’ by Sofi Saeed
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We are the forgetful
The self-important and the righteous
Selfishness written into our DNA
Intricately wound into the fabrics of our soul
Lovingly carved into the marrows of our bones
Shining through the cracks of a
Carefully constructed false personality
It is a talent well-taught
The act of balancing all this
Good and evil on delicate scales
It is a fraught process, this choosing
To choose yourself or to choose others
Do you help people even if it means harming yourself?
When harming yourself means harming your loved ones
Or do you harm others preemptively?
To “protect” yourself…
After all, isn’t that an act of
Loving and caring, the most unselfish
If so, is your choice a selfish one?
Questions… questions….
Philosophy is not my greatest talent
Having to think too deeply on one thing
Exhausts one, bores one…
It is as our leaders say
Being wary of choices is of no use
When all our choices lead to death, dirt and maggots
Is it a choice at the end of the day?
And not a path foretold and written to stone
That feeling that rises unbidden up our chests
To the throat like bile and gore
Helplessness; is one best avoided
It is best to cultivate a sense of self preservation after all
Let them die, your leaders tell you
Let it all perish, a quiet voice whispers
Be ice cold and unfeeling, they tell you
The only way through this, after all
Is to create a shield of apathy
And name it objectivity
For death dogs our footsteps
Hell beckons you, my dear, arms open.
‘Our path to eradication as mapped by you part II’ by Sofi Saeed
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Imagine there is a wall in front of us
Solid steel and brick, ten foot thick
Hard and unforgiving but
Riddled with tiny cracks
Why you notice is a mystery best left unsaid
But I see you and recognise the thirst in your eyes
And an ominous bell rings in my head
Warning me of the suffering ahead
You poke your fingers in and wiggle
Wriggle it until one brick comes loose
I watch you grasp it and pull
With unfiltered happiness of one fulfilled
I watch you calculate the angles
The infinite numbers in your overactive coked up brain
Use the knowledge from your education
Festering beneath a layer of chemicals
That you and I cannot name
You slowly, but carefully pull the bricks out,
One by one
In patterns and weaves that make sense only to you
Perhaps because to you, this is a game
And not a matter of life and death
Unbeknownst to you and me
You have provided our enemies with the very thing
The key to the temple of Damascus
The way through the walls that have kept them out
For the past unknown thousands of years
And what else could I do but watch?
Watch it all with bated breath,
With the ominous ringing in my ears
Growing louder and louder
Until my very breath deafens me and I stop
I just stop
It is only when they break in that you realise
Just what is at stake.
And suddenly,
All the bemoaning that you did
While living in decadence and sin
Brimming and overflowing with all that you could need
All you could want
All, except for your freedom, just seems so silly
Doesn't it?
Had you known, that your freedom would come at a price
Of the safety and lives of your loved ones
Would you still have taken this path?
When I see you hesitate to answer
I realise with a sinking heart
The answer would always be, an irrevocable Yes
‘Our path to eradication as mapped by you part I’ by Sofi Saeed
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A quick intake of breath and hold
Feels like asphyxiation
A forbidden temptation
Led into a spiral of darkness
Drown in air that cannot be absorbed
Did you just initiate something
That you can’t control?
I clutch at my chest,
And scratch with my nails,
Gouging
And yet you turn the key on
Heedless of my warnings
Ignite the mechanism for your own self destruction
Like an utter fool.
Don’t say that I didn’t warn you
My heart, it pumps aggression and spite
With the want of consuming you
Destroying you, until you are nothing
Your future is a mass of fragmented atoms
Meaningless and trembling
Are you holding your breath now?
I peek and watch
For a sign of realisation
Laser focused and full of judgement
I can see how it affects you
My attention.
Muscles straining and eyes all pupil
I look, narrowed eyes smouldering
Lips parted and wet with spit
Liquid gold dripping down like pearls
Do I tempt you like this?
This shapely forbidden fruit
Delivered to you on a platter of poison
Ready for consumption and instant death
I am spite, anger and madness
And in spite of all my warnings
Your need stretches out, grasping
Mould my body around this great want you carry
Such a selfish, greedy man.
Is my clutch the pleasure you really sought?
In it, I feel the first of your deaths
Heart stopping and vision gone white
Carved into deep where I cannot reach
Shoved so far in before you dissolve
Foam thin, formless and shapeless
It dissipates, just like the whole of you
And I see it finally hit you
The unchangeable conclusion
I see it in the whites of your eyes
When you unequivocally catch on
Your final death, inevitable.
Warning Signs by Sofi Saeed
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My interest in playing with you
Your “tricky” little mind games,
Thickens and wanes like the,
Cycle of a trusty moon…
It may, make me seem like a
Cheap version of the mighty Artemis,
All damaged, boring and aloof
Like a chipped moon goddess,
Not even a capable huntress
Unworthy of your precious time… but I…
I never really asked for it, did I?
Never in the first place…
So why do you insist on pushing?
Shoving your way in to places
Where you are clearly unwanted
Not that any sane woman would deny you
Of course, my good man!
But I’m not all there, am I?
So why do you insist that I smile
Upon seeing you glowing visage?
When you know I’m incapable of it…
When I am clearly unworthy of it…
When all I want to do is go home
And sleep the night away
Like the boring ol’ moon goddess
As you said, I am…
Not even capable of being
A good huntress… worthy of you
Your time and coveted attention
I’m more wallflower than ferocious tiger
Shrinking violet kinda girl
Blossoming away from your calculating gaze
Best buy date already gone past
A millennia away
Trust me when I say this…
I’m a broken moon goddess
Not even worthy of your attention
Not even a capable huntress
Not even deserving of the title ‘goddess’
Trust me,
I’m best left alone
The self-actualised moon goddess by Sofi Saeed
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It’s a struggle,
this concept of happiness.
maintaining the highs
when you are at your lows
it feels like a constant fight
trying to smile with your eyes
imagine,
wading in a pool of unforgiving ember
being pulled into a sinkhole
gravity working against the
mass of your body
the force of it pulling,
and pulling
the power of a supermassive blackhole
working against your being
despite you trying
despite you kicking
but then, when you drown
it goes quiet and there is a peace
precious in its fragility
you cup it in your hands
and hold still
so still
because for the first time in days,
in months
you feel a modicum of joy
like a flower slowly unfurling inside your heart
you take a breath of fresh air
because now it’s allowed
after being consumed in a cloud of smog
you can finally breathe.
you gasp!
and voila, there is clarity.
in the quiet of this shadowed dark
because in that moment
your sadness is put on hold
you can stop piling
black thoughts upon black
you're distracted
imagine!
a sense of permanence
quietly lingering in a forever silence
until,
you are pushed out
against your will
and the chug of life begins anew
the descent into the blue starts once more
and you keep wishing for yellow
but the blues just turn to greens
and you wish for shadowed corners to swallow you whole
for the blinking lights to embrace you
like the stars that have fallen before you
to the quiet of this shadowed dark.
in time
you will tell them
don’t miss me too much when I am gone.
‘in the quiet of this shadowed dark’ by Sofi Saeed
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Someone give me something
A task to soothe my mind
Clear the clutter away
I compartmentalise everything
But the drawers are all wrong
Files are haphazardly organised
And I panic as I descend
Into the darkest corners of my mind
I need a Marie Kondo to do her thing
Tell me where to put my demons
Do I need to call a Constantine?
Exorcise the ghosts of my forgotten past
My past is the past is the past
Barricade the unforgivable memories
Behind a six feet alloy and concrete wall
But my demons are like kaijus
Category five and heading to Mount Fuji
Blow my life apart in a volley
Of ice, fire and Kaiju blue
My brain is my biggest enemy
My thoughts like poison
I die clawing at the clutter
Come watch me drown.
‘Ice, fire and kaiju blue’ by Sofi Saeed
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My sadness is a progressing sound
A note that keeps building
Like dreaded anticipation
Somedays it crests the mountain top
And I drown in muted colours
My aura washed thin
Until its thready and weak
like sunlight on a dreary day
The hues dull blues and greys
Some days just don’t bear repeating
I live, for the sake of living
But my joy is weak and capricious
Two faced, like a double edged sword
Some days, this life doesn’t bear living
But I do it anyway, for the sake of you.
‘on a sad note’ by Sofi Saeed
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Is being directionless,
the same as being lost?
the ebbing and flowing of time,
the fast pace of it,
makes me stumble and oddly breathless
I feel the need to run and jump
higher, faster and stronger
clutching at the end of a rope
fraying and unraveling as I watch
the panic clutches
tight within my throat
this anxiety, its like a rock
that I cannot swallow
I grasp and clutch and claw
but like the sands of time
it keeps slipping from me
faster, the tighter I try to hold
where do I go from here?
do I go west or do I go south?
would east be better?
would north be kinder?
no matter where I look
its planes and planes of grey
its a purgatory
no sand dunes or suns rays
to mark the way
not a single oasis to tide the way
Is being directionless,
the same as being lost?
or is this just the passing of time
wrecking havoc?
“Directionless and lost” by Sofi Saeed
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my mother once said to me
hear me when I say to you
fear not the forces of the light
for the Angels may judge you
by your actions and thoughts
hold them against you
but they will always judge you true
humans were made to be imperfect
to stumble and fall to pieces
to love for all the wrong reasons and hate the same
fear not, my love, the forces of the light
for while my heart beats consistent
I will pray for your soul's safety, pious
“Forces, Part II” by Sofi Saeed
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my mother once said to me
hear me when I say to you
fear not the forces of darkness
for the twinkling stars are Suns
burning miles and miles apart
yet their light will always reach you
and cradle you in their warmth
provide shelter from your nightmares
turn your fear into happiness
your screams into tinkling laughter
fear not, my love, the forces of darkness
for while the sun shines in the sky
so will my unconditional love, eternal
“Forces, Part I” By Sofi Saeed
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It starts with a brush of fingers
A small tickle to the arch of my feet
Designed to make me giggle
And that tingle spreads
Until I laugh, and laugh and laugh
It progresses to the touch of hands
A gentle cupping of elbows
A touch to my spine, then against my neck
You notice my shiver
And I see you hide a pleased smile
Next is an arm flung around my shoulder
Or a soft invitation to lean against your side
A promise of support with a squeeze
That I innocently reciprocate
Much to your boundless delight
Then comes my initiative
A gentle hug here and a small kiss there
I cup your face in the palm of my hands
Cradle it like it is infinitely precious
And beam at your happiness, it feels so divine
Finally it comes, the coveting embraces
I invite you in, with all your greed and avarice
Stupid in love and ignorant of the contract
You are the devil, so cruel and creative
Your touches turn proprietary
I see your entitlement grow
Vast like the skies and the seas
You make a claim to me, my body, my soul
My confusion it pleases you
My fear it arouses you
I wince and gasp at your casual violence
Squirm to get away
But the more I move the tighter your grasp
Until your craving for power
Outshines it all
My hatred grows every millisecond
My love turns to poison
I see you observe it with addled confusion
Watch your fear consume you
You believe I will escape you
That I will kill you, you are right to
So you clip my wings and break my bones
For you are recalcitrant in your belief
That true love means sacrifice
So you sacrificed me
For the want of true love
“The Change” By Sofi Saeed
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