A Grey filled Moment....

I sit and I,

Listen to the dull echos of a,

Long lost national parade with a,

Forgotten princess singing her,

mournful melody.

©2017 Abdul Batin Bey

Drake un-coned part Two (because part one got deleted)

I feel so... empty
lost in my own,
inner abyss,
bleak skies match,
teary eyes,
hitting road block after road block,
stuck at a perpetual dead end.

Six feet down,
grey clouds block,
only light that may,
pierce through into,
my ever aching heart.

Betrayed myself,
betrayed love,
stuck beneath the price,
I can slam the tide,
until I'm worn,
drowned in my self.

This door is closing,
an empty room awaits,
where I will rest,
slip into a world of,
fantastic fantasy because,
reality is too cold for my,
sensitivities.

In that empty room,
my dreams will keep me warm.

In that empty room,
my dreams will keep me warm.

©2017 Abdul Batin Bey

Old City Shut

Sleep now Old City

Close your eyes to the lurking

Dream while the nightmares breed

Clawing, gnawing, vomiting on your walls

Lurking shadows feeding on the wayward

Sleep Old City

Pretend the living darkness isn’t real

Tight eyes wait for dawn’s relief

Forcing your subconscious into submission

Even if the cages bars are twisted

How long Old City

You cannot continue this dualism indefinitely

Without warning the sun will refuse

Aborted children will freely roam

As it was in the time of the void

Until that night

Sleep

Sleep it all away

©2016 Abdul Batin Bey

Isle of Mind

I thought myself wise

Standing by the Shore of Avalon

Allowing my mortal eyes to

Drink in the magical images of

Celtic mounds and Valleys

Far from the whispering Shadows

Draw away after the slither

I thought to myself

By the shores of Avalon

Now I am as pure as the

Black kitten that sleeps

Entities of imagination 

Until I blinked it away

Remembering the I that am

If I could only stay in this

place of present kiss

I would never count coins

nor care if the clouds grayed

Avalon now removed from

underneath my fingernails 

I find myself alone

Not by the glimmering shore

In an empty wooding floor

Corn Beef is done

Mustard cabbage too soggy

©2016 Abdul Batin Bey

Deleted Hour

Cracks in the wall

Dimension overload

Cracks in the wall

All-seeing eye peering

Cracks in the wall

Light shimmering movement

Cracks in the wall

Ignore the corners of your pupils

Angelic green eyes

Gaze up at the moonless night

Waiting for a moment

Surely to come

Out of sync with your expectations

Cracks in the wall

Dimension overload

Cracks in the wall

All-seeing eye peering

Cracks in the wall

Light shimmering movement

Cracks in the wall

Ignore the corners of your pupils

©2016 Abdul Batin Bey

Bubbles

Amber bubbles

Rising in my glass

To the thick head

Lost in illusion

Influenced by the idle

Nothing becomes accomplished

©2016 Abdul Batin Bey

BIG BANG TWO

I’m lost in time without you

I’m vanished from space without you

You always bring me back

You always bring me back

Even if I’m just a memory

We are connected beyond words

We are two really we are one

You always bring me back

You always bring me back

From the brink of collapse

I’m a drift

Drowning in explosive suns

Evaporating remaining whole

Your tears

Proclaimed my existence

Before my birth

After my death

You always bring me back

You always bring me back

Even if I’m just a memory


©2016 Abdul Batin Bey

F.N.O.R.D.

F.N.O.R.D.

The last basket

That first woosh

Sound of nothing

Passing on a bicycle

Cold to the skin

Heat for the heart

Nah Man,

Don't worry about the dial up

It'll come around

High speed blinders

Got you all confused

You thinking it's tomorrow

Though you're reading yesterdays news

What's going to happen

When you wake up?

Jump off the cliff?

Slide down a mountain of Peanut Butter?

Can't help you

Gatta help myself

I can only be the way for I

Just like you I

And him I

and her I

and we I

and they I

and all the I and I and I and I and I

Otherwise no one will get anywhere

Standing still nightmare

Wish I could stay

Time to hitch a ride

A place called Kolob

I heard God lives near there.

©2016 Abdul Batin Bey

Set Aside (Poem on Ramadan 28, 1437)

When I hear the call to prayer

My soul lifts up

When I wash

My body feels refreshed

When I stand on the rug

My being is outside normal time

While I pray

Nothing exists except my Lord

Engulfed in His Love, His Mercy, His Will

I become a mere thought of Allah

©2016 Abdul Batin Bey

Pine Nuts on the Floor (Poetic Rant)

Pine Nuts on the floor

Why you Muslims doing this?

Why you Muslims doing that?

You know your religion is backward

You know you hate women

You know that Jesus dies for you

Wait now...hold up... reverse

Why am I being demonized because

Others who share my faith are wigging out

Due to colonial brainwashing but you leave that out

Never seeing your contribution to the problem

Convinced yourselves you're the solution

Really.. is that so..

Let's go ask the Native Americans

Let's go ask the slaves that hung in trees

Lets go ask every indigenous peoples 

See if they speak Highly about you

Oh wait.. that was then... Oh really?

Has anyone made amends?

Righted any of the wrongs?

Just because you want to walk away

Doesn't mean the past is forgotten ok

Karma doesn't view history as you do

Research for a minute all that you have done

Holding the banner waving the cross

Then maybe you will see 

The deranged damage your people have done

Including never excluding the KKK 

Now back to the matter at hand

What's going on isn't nothing new

Started back in 1941

Escalating since then to now

How do you fight a colonial power?

Through terrorism

But until both sides come clean

Living this G.I. Joe cartoon dream

Nothing will be resolved

Hate will simply evolve

To the next generation

Morphing into another situation

Blood, guts, and no one wins

I hate to break it to you

We Muslims are not a monolith

Not some robotic hive mind

We're just like you

Over a billion people is a diverse group

So stop and think before you ask these questions

As if I should somehow know

How terrorist work 

Maybe you should just ask them

I'm on the same face as the planet as you

Wondering the same damn thing

How can people take something as beautiful as Islam

Turn it into an ugly nullification

How can people take something as beautiful as Islam

Turn it into an ugly nullification



©2016 Abdul Batin Bey

Star Scorcher

Cracked skies

Shattered waters

Scared scriptures

Angels in mass graves

Arabic dragon

Screams of the ages

Chains tormenting

The ones who were giving all

Misanthropic Dagon

Unnatural Native Dance

Blood Rain of saviors

Bow down Holocaust

Still you do not understand

Gods love is all you need

Dig beneath the Sumerian sand

Zoroaster's face you'll see

Ancient Fathers

Gifted the young

Ice mountains

Blocking out life giving sun

Moon knowledge

Poisoned mind

Rusty Nails

Take away all negative thoughts

Crystal holes

Broken lies

Black Stone

Unearth the Asiatic heart

Still you don't understand

Gods love is all you need

Dig beneath the sand

Zoroaster's face you'll see

Don't inhale the hate- Don't inhale the hate

Don't inhale the hate- Don't inhale the hate

Don't inhale the hate- Don't inhale the hate

Stop feeding the children of Baal

Copyright 2016 Abdul Batin Bey

Wrongs of Kin

Many will say they agree
evil exists all around
yet they refuse to see
modern day evil came from the kin
of you and me
If we truly don't agree
with the crimes of the past
leading to the crimes of today
the we must take responsibility
in correcting the wrongs
the wrongs of our Kin




Copyright 2016 Abdul Batin Bey