Sunday, April 24, 2011

So Ordinary


So Ordinary

I am so ordinary; you don't  have to look up
And smile: not I the cynosure of all eyes.
Words I can write, but not speak
There are a million stars in the skies.

I am so ordinary, so very ordinary.
You won't even believe I could be me.
I live and give, even forgive.
I guess that's just me.

I do  not have special talents , none.
I am just a very ordinary entity
I wished I was the pink cloud in the sky
Just to be me.

I am the lost, lonely one.
I think and then I become.
Just for now I warm myself
In the heat of the golden sun.

Copyright: Rani Turton


Sunday, April 10, 2011

I Hear Your Voice


I Hear Your Voice

I hear your voice, despite absence and distance;
Amongst clear skies, cloudy days, dark nights.
I wake up from fogged dreams:
And even then it seems
As if you are standing there.

I have a secret known to none.
I can listen to silence and the silence
Speaks in a languages only I know.
I can hear it's words distinctly;
Decipher what it is saying to me now.

Often  in the silence, I can hear your voice
Clearly, as when you walked by my side:
Ah, how lonely is the yearning heart
How fatigued the soul when it is tired.

Copyright: Rani Turton