The Other Side of Love AKSHR

The Other Side of Love  

Love is a two-way street constantly under construction

where the hearts of lovers are buried in the foundation

and those who've never loved are still digging.

Without love, I want to be an outsider who sees inside

the house and understands what is happening; 

but it's too late— I'm already on the other side of love.

Without love, I want to be a cold-hearted voyeur 

peering through windows at my neighbors' lives; 

but it's too late—from now on I'll only look out.

Without love, I want to be a stranger who can't find 

my way home even though I know the way; 

but it's too without love—

I'm already on the other side of love.

  AKSHR
 

Love Song AKSHR

Love Song  

 

There’s always room for love.

You just have to move a few things around

to make it fit. 

Sometimes you have to wake up earlier

than usual, or go to sleep later. 

You have to take the long way around to avoid construction. 

You have to do things you’re not proud of,

and learn how to be satisfied with scraps and leftovers.

You have to clean up the messes that you made, 

and sometimes you have to do it alone.

But no matter what, there’s always room for love.

AKSHR

 

My Love for You is a Journey ___ AKSHR

 

My Love for You is a Journey

 

My love for you is a journey; 

starting at forever, and ending at never

I am so in love with you, 

my heart can't beat without your name written on it

My dreams are filled with you; 

I dream of us growing old together

I dream of us having children and 

telling them stories about when we first met

When I think about you, my mind is overflowing 

with all the great memories we've created together

You have made my life complete; 

I hope to spend every day making yours happy too.

I believe that true love is a journey. 

It's a place we arrive at, but never really leave.

We stay there forever; even after death. 

The place where the journey ends contains our forever.

 AKSHR

Be Patient ___ AKSHR

Be Patient 

 

Scream until your throat is raw, or be silent

And let them think you are stupid.

Let their eyes glaze over when you speak.

Their stare will tell you that your words are fruitless.

When you ask for food, a bit of land, a job and nothing more,

they will shake their heads, as if to say, 

“You have to be patient.”

Without a word, they will take away your children—

just like that—because they must prepare them for the future.

And, when you are old and worn out, they will tell you, 

“Be patient.”

 AKSHR

The Art of Waiting ____ AKSHR

The Art of Waiting 

 

You have to be patient.I’ve heard it before—

It’s the only way to be.

You have to learn to accept the things you cannot change,

and know that you must sometimes wait for a long time.

Without patience, nothing will ever change; 

there’ll be no progress.

And yet I feel myself being pulled away 

from every single thing that I want—

AKSHR

 

Two Rivers ____ AKSHR

Two Rivers 

 

Scream until your throat is raw, or be silent

the pain of being human will continue.

You’re not a hero, but you know what is right,

and sometimes that’s all you get to keep.

Without the dead there would be no life,

without light there would be no dark.

Sometimes you have to look away from the pain,

so you don’t feel so alone in your grief.

Reason and love are our two rivers, flowing into one great sea,

sometimes they meet and sometimes they part.

Sometimes they’re one, sometimes they’re two,

sometimes it feels like it would be easier to just let go.

AKSHR

 

There is no eschatology in the world AKSHR

 

There is no eschatology in the world

 

Get busy living or get busy dying

 

There is no time for the other

 

There is no space for the other

 

The world will do what it does, 

and you are in it until you are not

 

The world will go on, and your work is 

to find the peace you need to go on

 

Scream until your throat is raw, or be silent

 

Find a way to live with what is happening, 

or say goodbye

AKSHR

Love yourself, baby. AKSHR

Love yourself, baby. 

 

The big lesson in life, baby, 

is never be scared of anyone or anything

except Him.

People you love will die and 

people you hate will live forever,

so love everyone the best you can. 

Don’t hate them! Love them.

He will always be in your heart, 

so love and respect yourself.

Your body is a temple, baby, 

so treat it like one.

You are beautiful! 

That is why you were born! 

He loves you.

Love yourself, baby.

AKSHR 

What is this life? AKSHR

What is this life? 

 

Die while living

 

is what this life is.

 

That’s what

 

I see each time I see her.

 

Die while living is to die in the middle of your life,

to not die at the end of your life.

 

That’s what this poem is about,

AKSHR

A Lecture AKSHR

 A Lecture 

 

Life after death

 

I’m a street magician

 

Look at my hands, see the blank spaces

 

the white edges of my cards? 

Yes, I’m tricking you, look at this

 

This is what I’ve been doing all along

 

Watch, now

Here comes the big reveal

AKSHR

The Hunger AKSHR

 

The Hunger 

 

Die while living live after death

the hunger for the love of God

the hunger for the love of a woman

the hunger for the love of a man

the hunger for the love of a child to hold

the desire to be held by another

the desire to be held

the hunger for the love of life

the hunger for the love of the world

in this, we are all one.

AKSHR

You Are Medicine AKSHR

 

You Are Medicine  

  

your hands as they hold my shoulders,

  

my neck, my face,

  

are soft and strong

  

so many times I forget to breathe;

to let go of my tension, my hurry.

 AKSHR

 

The doctor's laughter AKSHR

 

The doctor's laughter 

  

laughing with my patients

and for my patients to forget 

about their troubles

and for everyone to have the 

best of health

 AKSHR

So Funny, Isn't She? AKSHR

So Funny, Isn't She?  

 

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts

and, for a moment, makes us

feel like children who don't know better.

Without knowing better, we can laugh at

the way the world is.

Without knowing better, we can be

happy that someone else will do our work

or kiss our wounds or cry when we die.

We can think that's funny. We can say things

that sound like jokes and wonder why no one laughs;

we can be so funny, our mothers worry about us.

Laughter is an old medicine, a tonic for rough times,

and it's free: all you need to do is take it.

AKSHR

The Way We Are Together Is a Secret AKSHR

 

The Way We Are Together Is a Secret

 

The way we are together is a secret that nobody knows

 

and we are together

 

and the way it is for us is a secret that nobody knows.

Without you, I don’t exist. Without me, who would you be?

The way we are together is a secret between us and our love,

a secret between us and each other, one that makes no sense.

Without you, my life would make no sense. 

Without me, what would your life mean?

Our love has no reason to be but it is here anyway.

The way we are together is a secret that nobody knows.

AKSHR

The Broken Shore AKSHR

 

The Broken Shore

 

I dropped a tear in the ocean. 

The day you find it is the day 

I will stop missing you.

 

The sky is a map of it. 

The sea is a book of it.

You walk home in the fog. 

You are back in our house, 

on the other side of the world, 

in bed with me.

AKSHR