Speak
Laughter, acceptance, love.
These are the things I
think of
whenever I think of you.
Speak, says the moon.
The trees are telling
stories about
what it's like to be inside
a cloud.
Without you, I have nothing
to say.
I am too shy to talk to the
fireflies
and owls that visit me in
my dreams.
Without you, I'm afraid of
the dark.
I don't know how to name
the shapes and colors that
move thoughtlessly through
my days.
Without you, I am lost.
_____ AKSHR
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful
You don’t love a woman
because she is beautiful
she is beautiful because
you love her.
She is not loveable because
she is beautiful,
but she is beautiful
because you love her.
You don’t love a woman
because she is pretty;
she is pretty because you
love her.
She is not loveable because
she is pretty,
but she is pretty because
you love her.
____ AKSHR
Falling in Love with You
Meeting you was fate,
becoming your friend was a
choice,
but falling in love with
you I had no control over
you were the sun around
which I orbited,
you were my moon, my stars, you were my sky,
you were the earth below me
and I fell in love with you.
____ AKSHR
She Sings of Ships and Souls at
Peace
You are the reason why I
have sleepless nights.
You are the reason why I
tend to hold my pillow tight.
And you are the reason I
can't sleep without saying goodnight.
____ AKSHR
Away from this place and these people
Make your own destiny.
Don’t wait for it to come to you,
life is not a rehearsal
You’re in a running race.
Don’t wait for the gun to go off,
life is not a rehearsal.
____ AKSHR
What is a Life?
It is one life whether we spend it laughing
or weeping
and when I think of my own death, it is
always in love
where every moment is light and its
opposite dark,
and for this reason there is a kind of
comfort in death.
_____ AKSHR
The Absence of Proof
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
This is the only way to live.
In a world where an absence of proof
is not proof of absence,
we learn to trust our senses:
the stillness of a room,
the clarity of a window,
the silence in the middle of the night.
We believe in things
we cannot see: love, virtue,
grace.
In a world where an absence of proof is
not proof of absence,
we find ourselves in a world where
nothing is true
and everything is possible.
You Already Know
What is the point of life if you are
not
spending it with someone you love?
The thought is so simple,
So obvious it’s hard to hear.
The answer comes quickly:
There is no point.
What is the point of life if you are
not
spending it with someone you love?
____ AKSHR
If You Want to be Happy
It is one life whether we spend it
laughing or weeping
Or whether we spend it doing nothing or
something
It is one life whether we spend it in a
prison or a palace
Whether we give it away or hoard it up
for ourselves alone
It is one life and what comes out of us
comes from us
And goes back again like blood into the
heart's red pumping source.
____AKSHR
A Bibliography of Learning
If learning is an act of
exploration, then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime.
Without books and maps, the
explorer would have to memorize everything. The exploration might never begin.
Without a compass, the
explorer would become lost in an endless labyrinth of dead-ends.
Without a map, he wouldn't
know where to go next.
Without a radio, he would
never know what discoveries had already been made by other explorers.
And without a map or radio,
he wouldn't be able to communicate with home base.
The explorer would never
know when to go home.
____AKSHR
Of All the Things You Wear
Of all the things you wear,
your expression is the most important
You keep it as a tight-rope
walker keeps her balance
She knows she is a target,
and that all eyes are on her
It’s like you’re holding
yourself up by your eyebrows
Your body language is all
in your face
But you can’t be too
careful, or people will talk
____ AKSHR
Give every day the chance
Give every day the chance to become
the
most beautiful day of your life.
Give every day the chance to become a
gift.
Give yourself that chance.
Give your sorrows and anxieties
a
chance to fall away.
Give your grief a chance to be received by
the earth and transformed into flowers, trees, rivers.
Give your love a chance to reach out
and touch someone you don’t know.
Give every day the chance to become a
blessing.
____ AKSHR
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We’re All in This Together
In true love, you attain freedom.
It’s the key to happiness.
All the weight of aching, all the pain
and resentment and regret: they
disappear.
And you know that life is not about what
you can get out of it, but what you can
give.
Without it,
your days are just a series
of moments,
little boxes with nothing inside.
But
when you love—
when you love someone enough to forgive them—
you find yourself at peace.
____ AKSHR
Water for Drinking and for Fire, Water for
Dying
Because you are alive, everything is
possible.
You may be a man or a woman or both.
You may be in the moment, or in the
future.
Without you, there would be no map of
your body,
no scar on your knee from when you fell
off your bike,
no bruise under your left eye from when
you were born.
No childhood, no adolescence, no
marriage.
No children to grow up and have their
own children.
You can paint with words a picture of
how things were,
and another of how they will be when
you are gone.
You can tell stories about yourself that are not true:
fictions based on fact.
You can be a warrior, you can be a
poet.
You may not know what you want to do with your life,
but you are alive, so everything is possible.
____ AKSHR
