Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Endure

Endure the cold harsh days that offer you no hope, for with endurance your whole soul sublimes and nothing can take away that stand you made to defy the world and take it on by force. The whips you feel from who knows where, they sting you and you search for where they came from and who to fight, but with every time you turn, your back is lashed again. What way to fight those lashing whips but to endure and tell the world you may take my skin but my muscles still remain, you may take my muscles but my bones will endure.

It's easier to talk than to do and like the famous poet said, advice is easy to give for one who has not been afflicted, but for one who has, he has to bear his misfortune and bear the high horsed advice that people give him.

Relentless are those attacks that take you on by storm and leave you not to rest and leave you with much scorn. How much can you fend off from that worldly wrath you have to bear and how can one bear it when facing it alone. How much can one endure when many friends disperse at hardships at every fork in the road until you have too little of them standing beside you for support, and some return to stab you and kill what's left in you. Et tu Brutus and Brutus was the world who you once thought your friend and with the 'r' dropped it became a fiend. Such a deceitful word this fiend, it looks like a friend so close and yet it lacks what makes a friend, that 'r' that stands for reliable, dropped and so is it with a friend if not reliable turns to fiend.

But endure, lest your only friend, yourself be turned against you and forsake you.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

ما يصنع اعدائي بي ؟
انا جنتي وبستاني في صدري ، أين رحت فهي معي.. لا تفارقني .
انا حبسي خلوة، وقتلي شهادة،واخراجي من بلدي سياحة

LouLou said...

Why the dark mood?

The vibe I get is desperation.

Take it easy.

N said...

is it appropriate to comment on this one? :)

Wael Eskandar said...

loulou, I'm personally okay, but this is a message to certain people who have been going through a rough time for quite some time...

n, in your case it's n for no :)

N said...

lol. clever.

Nora said...

Nice post...

:o)

Unknown said...

Thank you for this poetry.. I relate..