This love won’t die… the tears we cry…
Have made you live a thousand years
And with each tear… your name shall last…
Beyond tens of thousands of years
* * *
A flag that has your name we’ve raised… and it flutters with our mourning
Its edges pierce the moon at night… and makes it cry till the morning
Upon your day, it turns blood red… as grief for you it’s adorning
And by the time the sun rises… it hears the moon for you calling
Even at night, when we mourn you…
The sun upon your lovers peers
And with each tear… your name shall last…
Beyond tens of thousands of years
* * *
We were born to this world, entranced… by love within seven letters
The “H” was you, the “U” was us… the “S”-es spoke of our secrets
The “A”, your father’s path we chose… the “I”, the eye that, on you, peers
The “N” cemented our belief… they thought you died, we cried “never”
In each letter… we lived a life…
Soothed only by rivers of tears
And with each tear… your name shall last…
Beyond tens of thousands of years
* * *
A sea of tears, in which we bathed… and from them we created gowns
Your love become immortal pride… and evil within our tears drowns
It became that we became you… we mirrored your smiles and frowns
The world watched as your hand, in pride… lover after lover it crowns
We became kings in your service…
And drowned in such a love, our fears
And with each tear… your name shall last…
Beyond tens of thousands of years
* * *
We gifted to your name, our lives… a gift and not a sacrifice
A love worth lives, destinies, fates…. upon it none could put a price
And though we gift toward you fates… we only hope it can suffice
You stood for our faith to surpass… centuries of hatred and vice
We gifted to your name, our souls…
And each soul, into two, it tears
And with each tear… your name shall last…
Beyond tens of thousands of years
* * *
We shrouded our fears in our tears… and to the world, we became one
We mourned you yearly as we wished… and before us could stand no-one
We struck our chests, we struck our heads… and walking to your grave we’d come
And drenched in the blood of our veins… lost deep in your love we’d become
And in each eye, the soul’s window…
The beauty of your name it peers
And with each tear… your name shall last…
Beyond tens of thousands of years
* * *
Within the path of your mourning, we awoke
And the tears would stream, when the tongue, your name, spoke
Seven letters within which we abided
Made us stand us one, and never divided
We were torn between weeping at your beauty
And weeping hearing of your calamity
Upon the sands of your love, we built houses
And dressed them in black when your day approaches
* * *
In the shrouds of your grief, we dressed our children
Presenting each to you as if an orphan
Our intentions could never once be clouded
When our dead within your letters we shrouded
When threatened with the fate of an explosion
We ran to it, seeing in it, creation
For like moths we were attracted to your name
But unlike them, were left unharmed by your flame
* * *
Living a life consistently in mourning
Your name our actions are only adorning
Your love like the blood that flows within each head
And it appears if our tears or blood we shed
For you, we could not in our patience confide
Leading to everything except suicide
Lost and only in your love can we be found
Like the millions who to your grave are bound
* * *
(London – 20/03/13)