Silent Tears

 Sometimes silence is so loud and strange

And can be heard across a thousand miles

May be rain can hide those tears for a while

Which keep flowing without any constraints

But won’t this rain stop one day

And expose those silent tears?

Wont these raindrops stop its cold grip

And my hot tears stop its masquerade?

Sometimes, I wish for at least a voice

Which can kill this cold and bitter silence

And their monotonous tone of accusations

And their never-ending complaints

And I hope that the rain stops for now

And you have a little time to spare

And listen carefully to my tears

When my tears start to speak slowly

In their special and secret language

And you can understand it perfectly…

Bon Anniversaries

 He wrote a letter in his mind

To answer a whisper a wind had sent;

He sought the fitting word to find,

As on by hill and rill he went.

The cadence sweet and silken phrase

He incubated in his brain

For days and days.

He wrote his letter on a page

It did not ring, so in a rage

He tore it up and tried again.

Time after time he drafted it;

He polished it all through the night;

He tuned and pruned till bit by bit

He got it right.

He took his letter to the post,

Yet long he held it in his hand.

Strangely his mood had veered, almost

Reversed,--he could not understand.

April romance had come to grief . . .

He tore his letter up again... 

Bon Anniversaries mon ami...🍀🌷

13/11/1987

Breath Easy

 A song dedicated to the memory of my son Farid Irsyad Zainal. Tq LITE (Malaysia)

Song reminds me a sad memory. Everytime i hear this song, i can't stop wishing how i could have done things differently. I lost my son of 2 years old to dengue.

What saddens me most was i was busy with my work at that time that i neglected spending quality time with him. He was a bundle of joy back then.

Can't forget the memory seeing him waving goodbye at the door every morning leaving for work. Alfatihah my son😢

Rindu Bayangan

 You melt in my arms

Like fragrance does

In a flower

You breathe into me

Like second does

To make an hour

You live inside of me

Like a current does

In a stream

You come to live in me

 Into the sleep

Comes a dream

You cut my dreams to pieces

And scattered them in the wind... 

If You Leave Me Now

Our department organised a party to celebrate a member of our management being transferred to another division. We had the outing at a karaoke lounge. Lots of singing and dancing 🎶. Me and 3 of my buddies were just observing and eating peanuts. We then notice a cute girl who was from another department. She was probably tagging along with one of our lady colleagues. I told my buddies lets sing her a song the moment she starts to leave the party. Helping out was our lady colleague. We chose the song If You Leave Me Now by Chicago. When she stood up making her move to leave, the 4 of us stood up in front of her and began serenading If you leave me now. She was all red blush..

She is now married to one of my buddies.

Falling

 I open my eyes one fine day,

To find myself hanging on a cliff at bay

I focus my mind on how I got there

But fail as if my memory wasn’t there

I find it hard to understand, How I ended here 

The earth seems moving, the sky seems falling

I thought to myself it was heaven calling

I prayed my last as breath seems to fade fast

My fingers slipped, my strength dipped

And I started falling off the cliff

I dropped faster and my head felt lighter

Like an untethered kite or a swift feather

I saw myself going down a gorgeous ravine

I crash on the ground and stare up the sky

To see my life flickering by

Today I see how empty I have been

And know I can't come clean

I lay life deprived, I know I don’t have a reprieve

I close my eyes and the last of my breath slips by…….

And then I hear a voice.. You keep falling from the bed again dear...

You can call me Al

 Voted for Paul Simon You can call me Al..The story goes when i first heard the song i was in my car when it pop out on the car radio. I was on the way back from work. I was feeling the 'moon so to speak' as i just got word i was getting a promotion & reassign to an overseas office. I think i was talking to myself most of the time while driving. I came to a red-light traffic stop. At the same time a car came alongside me. A girl was driving. That moment i turn to look at her and she too turn to look at me. A moment of gaze at each other. The song was about to finish. I wind down my window as her window was down and said - You can call me Al 😅😅. Traffic light turn green and she sped off. I wanted to follow her but unfortunately my car engine died on me. 🙆‍♂️ Btw my name is zainAL😅

Lonely Feeling

 Once upon a lonely feeling

In the wake of a restful, peaceful dreaming

A fragrance lingering there within... 

Wishing a dream would never end

If only it were another day

Another place where sad music never plays

Everyday, forever yesterday

Life would be better than today..

Rain

 Let the rain kiss you

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops

Let the rain sing you a lullaby

The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk

The rain makes running pools in the gutter

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night

And I love the rain.

Thoughts Unspoken

 So many thoughts unspoken

A silence held deep within

So many dreams forgotten

Not knowing where to begin

Sometimes we hurt the one that we love and it takes time for the wound to heal