The Poetic Pieces of TariQ Abdullah

Ghost

The ends justify your means

As long as you reach your goals

It’s all become game and teams

Till they’ve lost their souls

 

I’m just a ghost in the machine

Trying to get your attention

 

When you destroy everything you fight for

You’re only left with burial ground

Live or die there’s no coming back from war

Only another battle to be found

 

I’m just a ghost in the machine

Trying to get your attention

 

When you’ve changed the world around you

And you think we’re all perfect

Will you change yourself too?

So you can fit in it

 

 

To Kiss You (TNT)

Oh what I’d do?

To look into

Those sparkling green

Most beautiful eyes I’ve seen

 

And how much I miss?

Your perfect lips

When pressed against mine

Each time like the first time

What a feeling?

To feel your breathing

Holding you close to me

Those moments of ecstasy

Oh what I’d do to kiss you

And how much I miss to kiss you

What a feeling to kiss you

Coffee Shop

 

It’s coffee time at four a.m.

I climbed out a bed that’s frozen

Sat too long with a large double double

That bitch Pearl told the cops I was trouble

 

 

Meet me at the coffee shop

We’ll talk and touch and fall in love

Pretending this happiness won’t stop

And having each other will be enough

 

 

I found the streets the loneliest places

I was surrounded by millions of faces

When everybody was going to somebody

Tim was my faithful company

 

 

Meet me at the coffee shop

We’ll talk and touch and fall in love

Pretending this happiness won’t stop

And having each other will be enough

 

Dressed in her northern country style

No protection from the cold hearts of people

Always sorry for everything she done

I saw a child forced to be a woman

 

Meet me at the coffee shop

We’ll talk and touch and fall in love

Pretending this happiness won’t stop

And having each other will be enough

 

She never saw the good coming

Holding back the tears was blinding

On her second cup waiting for me

The only comfort I had was this memory

 

Meet me at the coffee shop

We’ll talk and touch and fall in love

Pretending this happiness won’t stop

And having each other will be enough

The Martyr

 You said good is what you strived for

While laughing at the little I was grateful for

It was funny you thinking we’re alike

When everything I valued you disliked

 

On the horizon of the new day

Where martyrs go their own way

Beyond the anger, hate and madness

I wait for you in still sadness

 

You got lead by your assumptions

Possessed by your possessions

In these dark places inside your head

I was seen as a madman mislead

 

On the horizon of the new day

Where martyrs go their own way

Beyond the anger, hate and madness

I wait for you in still sadness

 

 Your patronizing made you lose credibility

All your flattery meant nothing to me

Yeah you were good at criticizing

Never like the taste of your own medicine

 

On the horizon of the new day

Where martyrs go their own way

Beyond the anger, hate and madness

I wait for you in still sadness

 

You boldly lied to protect your interest

Lacked all courage to speak out against injustice

Cowering from freedom of expression

Even in your heart the truth had no protection

 

On the horizon of the new day

Where martyrs go their own way

Beyond the anger, hate and madness

I wait for you in still sadness

 

With words you tried to stab my soul

With weapons you tried to change the world

Poets you turned into enemies

All this to benefit society

 

 

On the horizon of the new day

Where martyrs go their own way

Beyond the anger, hate and madness

I wait for you in still sadness

 

I saw danger on the road you were walking

Now you see the threats were just warnings

The call to good you called imposing

It’s the one thing you wish you’d taken part in

 

On the horizon of the new day

Where martyrs go their own way

Beyond the anger, hate and madness

I wait for you in still sadness

Yumi


You and me in the middle of this
In contrast standing together
Bonded by differences
Perspective separates us from one another

Incomplete and in that state content
You always have a need to be changing
For me it was safety in being complacent
Complete in growth, but not in developing 

You are happy just being you
The one standing boldly in front
Doubt has split me in two
Opinions caused my confidence to stunt

What you project is effortless beauty
Every flaw you hold in perfection
Standing at the center of attention is me
Always falling short in comparison 

You are an awesome figure
Inspiring just by being seen
That’s me small in stature
Just trying to fit in

My Good wife

My good wife is always ready to please

She’ll do it five times a day

Going on her hands and knees

Begging for forgiveness next time she prays

My good wife she shows such humility

She has no problem swallowing that pride

Like the moon she’ll shine for me

I only do what I can to see her satisfied

My good wife loves me for who I am

She’ll love me through thick and thin

Always pushing me to give it all I can

Loving me in any position

My love you’re a beautiful sight

Like the heavens that light up the night

When you unveil your body

I know you do it all just for me

Season’s Greeting   (FFF)

May the blessings of ALLAH settle down on you abundantly.

Like in the Fall, when leaves settle to the ground plentifully.

May the mercy of ALLAH flurry upon you in every kind. 

As in the Winter, with its snowflakes boundless in design.

May the bounties of ALLAH bloom for you with splendor.

Such as that of in the Spring, when blossoms burst with grandeur.

 

May the peace of ALLAH pour down toward you with magnificence.

Just as in Summer, when the sun’s warmth brings out the Earth’s beneficence. 

And how with every year, the seasons bring a renewed scenery.

May ALLAH grant you a life full of good and ever changing beauty. 

Just a moment

See the black sky tapestried with stars
The twinkle coming from a distant past
Always just an arms stretch away
And in the direction of yesterday

Hear the union of heart and mind within
And you’ll witness the future begin
Dreams fertilized with action and time to grow
Only then will you have a new tomorrow

Your senses are flooded with the now
It offers more than both yesterday and tomorrow
So don’t yearn future nor regret past days
For the present leaves faster than it stays