The heart of Midas

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As a child I heard that the hand of Midas turned everything to gold,
And that the heart of Midas was far far from gold.

Golgotha

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There stood them three:
One fair,
One dark,
One golden.

Then nailed them three:
One proud,
One sad,
One melancholy.

My mother loves art

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"My mother loves art"
He said from behind me.
Infront of us a man in a painting,
Who was suddenly smiling.

Other Girls

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I've always seen other girls like they were in another world

One where they never felt odd like I did,

A world where everything weird was long forlorn,

But I was the only one who thought this indeed.

Into The Deep

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Look,
Look into the deep,
Look through the deep into the core

Heroes

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I never knew my father,
But I had heard from my mother,
That he was the best hero there ever was,
With his smile he ended wars.

Leonardo's Hands

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Wedding bells you see

Rang so loud this morning.

Open up those doors,

Let her walk in slow.

Everyone watches as her face glows,

There she is. My wife by tomorrow.

When Man meets Woman

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When man meets woman, it's fate as far as the eye can see,

Its destiny wielded by all forces earth, fire and sea.

Dealing with Failure

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I was five when it happened,
It was at my aunty's wedding - the one that never smiled.

The usher had passed it to me without a second glance,
A hurried look on her face, like she had other things to attend to.

I didn't mind because I had gotten it.
It was a souvenir, a fan shaped like a hand.

A Letter To The Dead

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Dear Bola,

Monday the 18th was supposed to be the best day of my life,
It was our wedding day.
Supposed to be anyway.
That was the day I got the heart breaking news,
Bola was dead.

Buy me a rose

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I once met a lady with an amazing soul,
She had  blue eyes and a wonderful smile,
She had that kind of love that could fill any hole,
She had that laugh that resounded in your head for a while.

'There was no way I was letting her go' I thought,
'She was the one' I also thought.
And everytime she smiled over her shoulder,
She looked a lifetime younger.

One day while we drank cocoa on a blissful Sunday 5pm,
She leaned back into the crook of my arm,
And slightly played with her dress hem,
"Buy me a rose please dear dear Max."

Of course I replied "I'll get you one, is that all you want?"
She nodded and smiled.
"I'd give you the moon if that's what you want."
"I'll take it", she said with yet another smile.

The next day I bought her the rose,
And a necklace coloured moonlight blue.
But then, the Lord called her home.
I mourned for a decade,
Her going was all too soon.

And even though I  got married  a decade later,
Every night as I laid in bed I could still hear her,
"Buy me a rose Max."
That's all she ever asked.

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IT'S THE LAW

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Walking through this dark hallway,
My heart racing for the fear of what's next,
My mind drifts back to how it all started.

Alone

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I decided to look up the word ‘alone’
So I checked the dictionary on my phone,
And the results got me thinking.
So I did a bit more of searching,
I decided to look up loneliness,
But that just got my thoughts in a bit of a mess.

Quiet [By Susan Cain] - Book Review

About the Author:

Susan Horowitz Cain (born in 1968), was a former lawyer, an American writer and lecturer. She's the author of the 2012 non-fiction book; Quiet; The power of introverts in a world that cannot stop talking. The book Quiet, has been on the New York times bestseller list for over 3 years, and has been translated into 360 languages.

Review:

Today, introversion and extroversion are two of the most exhaustively researched subjects in psychology - arousing the curiosity of hundreds of scientists. In Quiet, Cain carefully analyzes the two types of personalities. She defines introverts as 'People that are drawn to the inner world of thoughts and feelings' and extroverts as 'People that are drawn to the external world of people and activities'. It is passionately argued, impressively researched and filled with indelible stories of real introverted people who ended up being extremely successful innovators of our time.