Be the Rock

The humble man in a quiet room

heard a voice call out to him:

'Son, Son, what ails you that with clasped hands before me

you stand

disillusionment in your eyes

distraught bores your heart

Your pain weighs heavily on your shoulders

There's much anguish and grief
I see them all

Tell me what ails you?"

The humble man, his eyes wet with tears

His words were barely a whisper, he replied:

"I hear the hypocritical men,

the same ones that poisoned the earth

the minds of children

and laid taint upon the soils of the land.

I cry for the loss of goodness

for their hearts are ridden with greed

and they stumble in a drunken worship

of evil

I fear for the loss of sanity

For madness has taken root in this world." 

Then, in the silence of the room 

A Storm brewed:

Waves

lashed against the rocks

that never moved an inch

Fortified by centuries of strength

standing upright 

against the might of a turbulent tide

Until calm subdued the waters

And the sea danced to the winds once more.

In the midst of the turmoil

He heard the voice say

"Son, Son, do not be afraid

Be like the Rock

Fortified to stand upright

Against the rising tides

of life's storms

is time

Calm will reign once more

and the men of disrepute

will be no more

In an uprising

They will sink in their own mire

of sin

Never to rise up again

For greed has blinded their eyes

and they walked

into the quicksand

Down, and down they went, 

And they were swallowed up 

By the very soil they were traitors to. 

Be The Rock

-shobana-

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The stealing light

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The lights come on when the world falls asleep

It was a way of stealing light 

to outdo the dark

Though there's no warmth like that found in the rays of the Sun.

"It does help," I heard one say,

"to be able to see what goes on

around you."

"Indeed, it does," someone else replies

And I agree.

Though in my heart I wondered at the darkness 

that sometimes grips one that light

cannot soothe or dispel.

As I watched the fireworks light up the night

A stunning display

almost at my doorstep

to show me how light

raised up a night

to keep one awake

to abide by the wonders before us.

I was glad for its colourful luminnence.

-shobana-

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Haven of Silence

It was in the sighs that I heard the whispers

Fragmented words that, when knitted together

Finally came together to make sense

I realised that not all words were meant

to mean something worthwhile to me

So I picked them out

The weeds from the freshest of grass 

till 

The meanings were clear - an unveiling it became.

The cries of the heart can never be spoken

except when heard in the sighs 

when at times

They leave their haven of silence.

I wondered if the tiny sighs would make an ocean

like tiny drops of water

I realised that sighs lasted a lifetime

and ventured deeper than the oceans to outlive

lives in memories.

-shobana-

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The Adventures of Tiny Star

Trapped in Earth's Crust

by Shobana Gomes

Book 1 - First Edition

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