Dying passions are all I have these days, I feel like I’ll never be able to do anything, anything that I wanted to…!
Look, what failures can do to one.
Writing… well my DEAR Transmitter is no more interested in me, and I, myself on my own account was never much of a writer…! It has been almost a year that I would have been bestowed upon with a poem…
Even if I want to I can’t, I simply can’t write…!
I am such a child, its impossible for me to face a failure manly(womanly… whatever). one damnable failure (and not even a failure if you ask others) and everything start looking gloomy. I lose every single drop of confidence that I ever had…!
I want to write, I really, really want to write, any bullshit that’ll pacify me, that’ll make me think, that I am not dead yet, that I still have enough in me to be the person I always have wanted to be.
I am such an idiot as to destroy my hard work of months by negligence of days. I have a way of destroying whatever good comes my way. I have of letting go whatever success is destined to come in my hand, what is already IN MY HAND. I let the diamond slip as if it was sand, it is that easy to let go, and then that remorse, that regret, deep regret that kills, and never let you rest. you wake up every morning, and you don’t want to face the world, you want to sleep again. You secretly wish you never had to wake up, at least with this regret, you try finding a way to make to improve things, but nothing can improve you. You want to escape the reality, the failure, you want to run away, you hate everything that ever was connected with that failure.
Apart from writing, I have other passions too, my involvement in science. My childhood dream to become a scientist, funny? oh I don’t care about its sounding that way. But now I feel I am just another person, there are thousands like me, not even hundreds… thousands …! What difference I am gonna make?
Question: Am i capable enough as to make a difference, “even a little one”? I beg in my heart, I want it, can’t bear it to be otherwise.
Question: would I be consistent enough? Do I have enough passion to last me there? I am very doubtful about me, I have my way of losing things, can not be sure about myself. I am not reliable.
I will not last long with this weak a will power.
Its breaking me to be apart from my friends, they were a constant support, I am without a backbone now, very limping. They had an essence in them that I fail to find in anyone else; being with an altogether different company is affecting me inwardly. I fail to understand why my dreams, my goals are loosing clarity just cause I am away from THEM. Why? so dependant…? The Yamna Rehman Khan who gives a damn to everybody, that yamna?
DON’T WANT TO LOOSE MY ESSENCE.

8 responses to “lifeless…”
zahid rizwan
August 13th, 2011 at 00:49
you can…..you have capability
creation is painful…sometimes one cannot write anything……but this phase ends one day
yamnarehman
August 15th, 2011 at 12:02
yes I actually wrote somethings in july, not poetry though
I wrote a drama and we went to gc university to perform it
aala hogaya na?
zahid rizwan
August 19th, 2011 at 23:10
gcu lahore????
when???/
ma wife is also in gcu.
yamnarehman
September 8th, 2011 at 14:56
aaala, gcu mai parhati hen?
yamnarehman
September 8th, 2011 at 14:57
garmiun ki chution mai
zahid rizwan
September 8th, 2011 at 22:51
No
PhD Scholar
zahid rizwan
September 6th, 2011 at 23:19
“A Farewell Letter”
If for an instant God were to forget that I am rag doll and gifted me with a
piece of life,
possibly I wouldn’t say all that I think,
but rather I would think of all that I say.
I would value things,
not for their worth but for what they mean.
I would sleep little, dream more,
understanding that for each minute we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds
of light.
I would walk when others hold back.
I would wake when others sleep.
I would listen when others talk,
and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream!
If God were to give me a piece of life,
I would dress simply,
throw myself face first into the sun,
baring not only my body but also my soul.
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice,
and wait for the sun to show.
Over the stars I would paint with a Van Gogh dream a Benedetti poem,
and a Serrat song would be the serenade I’d offer to the moon.
With my tears I would water roses,
to feel the pain of their thorns,
and the red kiss of their petals.
My God, if I had a piece of life…
I wouldn’t let a single day pass without telling the people I love that I love them.
I would convince each woman and each man that they are my favorites,
and I would live in love with love.
I would show men how very wrong they are to think that they cease to be in
love when they grow old,
not knowing that they grow old when they cease to love!
To a child I shall give wings,
but I shall let him learn to fly on his own.
I would teach the old that death does not come with old age,
but with forgetting.
So much have I learned from you, oh men…
I have learned that everyone wants to live on the peak of the mountain,
without knowing that real happiness is in how it is scaled.
I have learned that when a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his
tiny fist his father’s finger,
he has him trapped forever.
I have learned that a man has the right to look down on another only when he
has to help the other get to his feet.
From you I have learned so many things,
but in truth they won’t be of much use,
for when I keep them within this suitcase,
unhappily shall I be dying.
~GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ~
yamnarehman
September 8th, 2011 at 15:04
I would show men how very wrong they are to think that they cease to be in
love when they grow old,
not knowing that they grow old when they cease to love!
To a child I shall give wings,
but I shall let him learn to fly on his own……
its a pretty thing……….. when you imagine the poem :smile