Poem - I Shall Miss Quintessa

I SHALL MISS QUINTESSA

I shall miss the silence the space

And the stares that are worlds apart

Onto which these stains of all strife

And all life they depart for the dark

But never too engraved these sins much

Denied and all griefs so imbibed

And for places to where these steps

I would take for the sake of the sane...

I shall miss those sirens of sadness

That bellowed in all scenes so undone

For white lies and dark sighs it is time now

For the world to welcome me back

From this altar for pain to departed red roses

Of hope that had bloomed once again

For this I unto me as I carve once again, this

Glorious path to heavens amidst all lost smiles...

And to this end of all misery I now stand

At the threshold of more bright white faces!

Of things left unsaid for when the last I set out

For darkness within and without for within thus remained...

And so now I shall miss this unruly

Hubris; this darling wrecked Quintessa

For the spirits they had lurched from the void

And then straight to the dawn for now and forever!

For never this me he’ll forget of the place of whence I came

Through the land so forgotten but never forgiven

For the fires in my heart for the future of battlefields

And to the plane of all stars for a place I called home…

Poem written by:

Saiful Nizam Shukor

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