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By TheDissenter

Bankruptcy

Now the stretching of a dollar
Dollar in a pocket can't get you far
Far into staying for a meal
Meal to survive for the day

Day waking up to realize
Realize the cost of goods rise
Rise into playing an economic blue
Blue in the darkness fall

Fall the way of mismanagement
Mismanagement of country's resources
Resources unevenly distributed amongst the people
People make the nation glow

Glow when it is new
New has gone improper diversions
Diversions in the name of developments
Developments in cronies world of economic pursuits

Pursuits for selected choicest candidates
Candidates glorify as cronies
Cronies are parasites to fleece the country
Country will go bankrupt when change never comes

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Nothing will stay
Stay it cheap forever
Forever isn't the way
Way of life cost of living high

High costs our mistakes
Mistakes to elect government
Government years into our lives
Lives we thought could be good

Good for the elected party officials
Officials suppose to help the people
People of the nation sharing wealth
Wealth disparity delusion in our minds

Minds gathering for change
Change the best for the generations
Generations of the coming age
Age of light; change of wind

Wind whirring carrying the messages
Messages of change we seek to find
Find the way is in our hands
Hands we will cross the day of change

Change of spices
Spices of life
Life of changes
Changes we mustn't fail

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The dim light in the park
Of nature and its glow
When night falls, shadows dance
Tall fat trees leaves camouflaged

The day nobody is afraid
The light shining clear of any object
The eyes can see registering the confidence
Walking or driving nothing to keep worrying

Only when night falls
In the park and alleys
The mind all tense up
Afraid of the shadows

In the park of nature
Dim rays of beam amongst the darkness
Eyes watch the shadows amongst trees
Registering a fear afraid of own desires

Dwelling amongst the fat tall trees
Broken branches leaves flying away
The whispering of the night creatures
Worst when there is a white thing floating

The tricks of the eyes
Of fear losing confidence
In the night of dim shadows
The whirring breezes sing

The spices of life
Living through the night and day
Darkness a debt to pay
Alone we all pray

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By mayday05

Kampar

The eyes stared
Of the time he could have been
When he was a young man
Able body not afraid of hardship

The tin mining era
He could have the tail end of its spin
The golden era in this quiet town
When tin price collapsed, many lost jobs

When the second wave boom
On the housing industry room
He could have been working
Bricklayer or mosaic player

Earning substantial income
Life was good of those gone era
Planning for tomorrow hardly done
When the brick falls, it is hard to recover

Now he sat alone
Lost his dignity his self respect
Of those years he forgot
We are young once

We are champion in our times
A temporary glow then it will be gone
It can't be forever as old age claims its place
So know the rule young only once!

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By mayday05

Kampar

The morning life
Kampar gets into strikes
In the market and hawker's stalls
Thriving businesses in the eyes

The food court near the market
Noises thundering echo
You can't hear words they say
Only the hollow drumming in

The older generations
Morning breakfast and busy gossiping
Of lives and children
Majority in KL and Singapore

Some never make it
Lost the focus lost the way
Like this young man
Sleeping on the 5 foot way

This is his favourite spot
On the Chinese medicine shop
This is where he always would be
Living in his little world

His family members occasionally do
Taking him for a hair cut and a bath
Then he will come out again....
Living in his chosen way

There are reasons for many things
Of life on the way to learn and experience
Of losing dreams losing minds
In this world some lose it

Nobody can say
The spices of life
What tomorrow will bring
Only do the best you can

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By gabystars-lash

dark night

Stories of yesterdays
Back in the old village
Where developments hadn't arrived
Where lives were easy and playful ways

In the dark nights
The story telling would begin
The children and young teenagers
Grouping together listening the tales

When the sky was dark
The silence in the deep night
The witches made potions
Of those Romeo and Juliet

The pendents to bring
Success in love and sex
That was the way.....
The losers tried to gain

Casanova of sweet talking guys
Paying attention telling stories wild
Showing the potion of what they got
One drop women would fall.....

Deep in the jungle
A wooden hut a witch lived
Stories were told about face of a tiger
Roaming in the jungle....

Of black crows and pretty maidens
In the deep forest dark in the moon light
Singing and playing floating in the dim rays
Of men desires taking them away

Of vampires and oily men
Roaming in the night
Searching for loose men and women
Taking souls leave them in shells

Stories of yesterdays
It still sounds true today
Of con-men and Casanovas
Lies and tricks spices of life

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By Pierpont

Morning Sun

The morning rays
On the jungle treks
The early morning chirping
And the morning dews

Inside the nature
The silence of diamonds
Glowing naturally bright
Witnessing the orange flow

As times ticking by
It becomes brighter and sparkle
Closing eyes to shade it
It's rays never go away

The wet ground
The morning dews spread
For a while as the nature takes over
The bright light conquers

The golden rays penetrating deeply
Into the green leaves and cluster trees
Branding shadows curves and blacks
The silence takes every where

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By paulaaa1234

morning

One little birdie crocked
In the morning sun rays

Yesterday it was jumping
Corner to corner with flapping wings

I realized it couldn't fly
Hopping was the best it could do

I released it in the open
The little birdie couldn't fly

It just ran and hopped
Tweeting loudly by its parenting birds

So I put it back in the cage
Thinking a few more days to see

At night I looked on it
It was sleeping peacefully

In the morning sun rays
I saw one dead in the cage

The little birdie couldn't fly
It died somewhere in the early morning light

The last one standing
I let it go flying weakly into the trees

The spices of life
It changes every now and then

So don't take all for granted
It can be gone in the night

Finish what need to be done
Don't postpone it thinking tomorrow will come

When souls leave the body
Nobody will know what it will do

Every day finish what are important ones
For tomorrow is hard to sell......

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What's the truth?
When money is a game to play

Tell what need to say
Hide the facts give the lies

On a straight face
On a solemn pace

It's money what say?
The temptation forgetting the truth

Know what's the truth?
Read the scriptures maybe

The spices of life
The journey takes its toll

Of people of government
Of dreams and freedom

So what's the truth?
Money my friend in this world!

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By tmcg

Batu Ferringhi, Penang island

When life feels miserable
When life feels so stressful
Find a quiet place to let go
The misery of a life....

Away from motorized traffic
Find a quiet place to sink into
Work on the misery of a life
On a beach; life a bitch

Now dream about it
The bitches of a life
Imagine the scenes
Eyes staring into the rippled sea

Let the mind write its journal
Along the focus you let it floats
Let the misery rears its ugly shadow
Let the soft warm breezes take away

The sea and the sandy beach
The rocky stones and boulders
Walk along feel the impact
It's going on for million years

Then you find your life misery
It's just a small part of a journey
Now you know there are many things to do
Carry it on forget about yesterday

Yesterday is history
History into the record book
Book will add a new page
Page to start a new beginning!

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Sitting on the chair
Admiring the cool breezes of the night
Of those years wondering how the time passed
Sipping cool drinks admiring the sunset

The sea ripples of hungry lines
Racing further to nowhere
Like some of the people
Busy working hard 9 to 5

End of the day
End of the years
They have nothing to show
Only lines on the faces

Years of youth gone
Leaving the footprints in the minds
Debts and lost dreams
The way of lives

The spices of living
Mix the correct ingredients
Get the best aroma in life
Believe in what you can do

Now the empty sun lounger
Staring into the sea at night
The soft breezes whirring away
The silence from the emptiness

The politics of make believe
Alleys hide agenda camouflaged
In time the walls crack
The smell of deceit and corruption

The cool drink quenched
The ripples travel far into the night
The echo of the night wind
Silently whisper changes will come

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Night by the beach
The dim light and night stars
Casting shadows embracing sights
Amongst the locals and foreigners

Across the streets
Rows of cafes and restaurants
Bar lounges to drink away blues
On the main island letting loose

The discreet beach boys
Dark skinned guys popular with women
Especially land of the Rising Sun
As those in the know will say

The sex trade on the discreet
Contacts through runners
Sometimes hearing from gossips
Of which housing garden...

The milder drugs
The usage on the discreet
Police do make raids
Keep the menace low

On the beach
Some dark shadows exit
Under the moon light bay
Listening to the waves

Ocassionally drunkards hang
On the beach dreaming away
Of the sea ripples through
The eyes just can't see

Easy life easy traffic
Abundant hawkers' foods
On the island waking to the beat
Smell the night breezes

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By s21rc

Langkawi Beach

On a beautiful day
Sky blue and white
Sea calm soft breezes
The soft sandy beach

The quiet on the beach
Early morning until sun shines
Then the sound of motorboats
Jet ski revving on the sea

Sometimes fishing boats anchor
A short distance from the shore
A night of catching fishes...
Now the time to unload

The tourists flock
Enjoying the morning sun rays
Casting shadows on tall coconut trees
The half naked sunbathers baked

The waves slap the shore
The naughty breezes smile
The way of nature light up
The rows of sunbathers delight

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By austinwoodruff

The loan sharks
The illegal money lenders
Easy loan flooding into the markets
Where banks fail the borrowers find

For decades the loan sharks triumph
The defaulters suffer in shame and agony
The end of the stick of failures...
The police allegedly never go after the big fishes

The miseries reported in the press
The way these loan sharks gathered money back
It is so inhuman a crying shame in the society
All for money the borrowers suffering

Now the government wants to make amends
Passing amendments to plug the loopholes
In the first place why they never think about it
It is a political ignorance to serve certain individuals

The loan sharks are businessmen
Higher up in the society.........
Think about it as a front to fund illegal money lending
Though it comes late in the pursue of justice

The spices of every day life
See the misery; hear the corruption
In a society minted of materialistic wants
Loan sharks have evolved their businesses

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By LaGambler4

Beat Them

Don't ask for handouts
Play the game to get it done
Like football or any other sports
Trained hard to get the scores

Look at the basic flow
Who's at fault until today?
It's the political leaders
We elected them; we are too blame

We are conned for decades
Believing the wonderful lies of magic
Giving us something to sing praises
The political masters and cronies walk to the banks

In simple term....
United we are strong
Disorganized we all shall fall
Into the political soup bowl

HRP splitting all corners
Only for themselves to shine
They should join a like minded party
United to fight for a change

Hit and run tactics
Some bruises some laughs
The impact isn't a long term solution
Too many self egos the potholes never fill

The spices of life
The political masks enriching some
Walk with care of the shadows
They don't support for eternity

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borrowed jetroes www.photobucket.com

Life is a dance
Live it in every turn
It doesn't have to get music
In the mind it will do

The spices of life
It blends in perfectly
Of the dark and light
It is in the mind

The spices of twisting lies
Unmarked twists and turns
Hiding it in corners
The shadows smile

Sometimes good to forget
Go for a dance to live it up
It's so sweet and graceful
On the dance floor forgetting reality

It helps to renewed faith
The sun rays and moonlight bays
Life also a bitch
Nothing to hide....

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The season of raining
Storms and hurricanes
Of wild days and cool heads
Of life spices blend into it

Don't go running naked
Out in the open.....
When things go bad
No face to hide the shame

Teenaged mothers
Unwanted pregnancies
Poor judgement minds decay
With regrets crying shame

Know the rules of a game
They are the guidelines
They are to keep away blues
Stay on course life will be free

So it's best to be prepared
On the battle field of a life
Get an umbrella ready in the mind
Watch out for the raining days

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The paradise beckons
Beckons of romantic illusions
Illusions spreading in the mind
Mind is where the journey begins

On the soft sandy beach
Listening to the waves
Kissing the shores
Whirring breezes sing

The shadowy colours
Enticing the mind to dream
The nail biting caresses
The rolling waves hit

The strikes are even
The embracing waves run
The easy strokes swift shadowy water
The spices of life

Life a bitch
It's in the mind
The faint light sensations
Live it before it is gone

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By jetroes-bucket

potholes

The potholes on the roads
You wonder why it never repairs?
Quickly as it happens.....
The disease of mismanagement

Tea-breaks many go
Go with it nobody checks
Checks into the situation
Situation of serving self interests

When complaints file in
It takes months to be rectified
You can have the clients charter
It's the responsiveness to get it done

The classic excuse
“No manpower to do
Some go for meetings
Some attending courses”

Some works outsourced
Yet the work done nobody checks
The potholes can be mended many times
Within 90 days the same holes cracked again

Our tax money going to waste
Paying for a job done many times over
All because the civil servant lack of supervision
Taking a long tea-breaks...

The spices of life
Life we learn; life we live
Live seeing the creative works
Works pay many times

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taib's contempt for the natives(contempt of high court ruling?)

borrowed from http://sarawakheadhunter.blogspot.com

Sarawak CM on revenge
Court rules against his State
He took his alleged bully
Tearing down the native homes

The natives of Sarawak
You have to open your eyes now
You have to open your minds
You can't be losers in a corrupted regime

Wake up and join hands
With the like minded people
In Sabah and Mainland
It's time to call for change

Enough has been said
It's no use crying over spill milk
We must change the government
For our future and our generations

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One little birdie died
What reason I couldn't find

It was hopping around
Active in the cage.........

I was observing it
Right up to my lunch time

When I went out
The little birdies hopping around

When I came back
They were there in the cage

I observed them
Looking at the antics

Then I went away
Within about 40 minutes

One little birdie died
What reason I couldn't find

Now I buried it
In the garden return to its place

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By perty

smebirds

The lovers fly
Into the realm of dark and light
Under shadows of moonlit sky

The intimate shadows
Alone amongst the stars
Searching for the ultimate goal

The soft breezes
Whirring steadily along
Trying its best to break the spell

The intimate glow
By the lights of the stars
Enriching the lovers

The soft murmuring
In the cool silence
The crescent moon smile

The lovers fly
The freedom in the air
Until the dark forces come

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bellebeandog's www.photobucket.com

Do you want dance?
Play the music in the oven
With spices sprinkle on it
We will be done

Come on don't be shy
Let us do the last dance
The oven is turning red
It's time to take our stage

Now move your feet
Fold your wings....
Like I do.. you are natural
Dancing in the oven

Listen to the sound
The burning beats rearing to go
We have to take the plunge
Into the spices of life

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The despair of losing
The jobs, relationships, and properties
The materialistic goals drilling into the heads

The life on the fast lanes
Chasing wants forgetting values
Blinded by greed wanting paradise

The spices of life
The good and evil
It's all there......

The physical values spring into forms
Lay out to tell you have arrived
Yet the despair of losing........

It strikes into the minds
Of dignity of values of markets
The standing in society.....

Remember the scriptures
Live within your means
Do good deeds earn the flow

It will come in good seed
When it is time to go
It's the only way to save your soul

The spices of life
Feel and taste the aroma
Yet don't forget what's life all about

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The city attracts
The honey-comb surrounds
Every type of character
The city of gold mine

Living in her flow
Bite the bullets staying afloat
Do all kinds of work
Don't tell the people back home

The city never sleeps
The waking hours every day
The hunters of many types
All want the pot of gold

The spices of life
The city churns out plenty
The light and dark characters
Remember your root....

the archways

The toll; the toll
From Malaysia to Taiwan
It never seems to get away

The archways artistic value
The tourists come to take a look
Maybe take pictures for history

People look....
Admiring the structures
Of somebody's sleeping mind

The archways
The stop, look and go
The toll; the toll

xi men ding street

The pink poles
Straight line on the silent street
The sun rays frustrating shadows
Clawing nearer to get a better peep

Yet the doors stay closed
The sun has risen casting daylight dreams
The shops still waiting for the owners
The light seems dark in their eyes

The locals know the time
The shops will open when it is right
The fortune tellers guidelines
It has to obey else poor business befallen

It is only the tourists
So eager to spend
Finding souvenirs browsing delights
Now waited the first on the line

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The village people
The cool fresh air
The rapport amongst the villagers
Yet the young eager to get out

The lure of the magnet
The city drumbeats pulling them
They dream, they read, wishing so
The village's life isn't a shine

In schools they think big
Fantasy conjuring up in their minds
“When I finish my study
I am going there....”

The lure of money
The lure of easy life
The lure of making it big
So the villagers come

No doubt some make it
Into the dreams they believe
Riding on the waves of good fortunes
Forgetting their roots; they are the city slickers

They behave and talk
The gestures and characters
Forgetting about village life
They are the city hungers

The spices of life
The magic and hollow
It depends on how you live by
You should remember your roots

Roots give a history
When things and dreams falter
It helps you to stabilize your journey
Own it up then be free

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The pimps and slave traders
They are the flesh hunters
Scouting for broods for quick money
The misery of others they don't care

The spices of life
The dark forces and the light of hope
Between the bridge each has to choose
What life will be in the end?

One wrong move; one careless plunge
The life will turn upside down
The pimps and slave traders
They pounce on it without remorse

In their eyes the money
Ride on the suffering of others
They want to live an easy life
The dark side what else they think?

A short term fantasy
They take it for themselves
The days of judgement
They don't think about it

the small ants

By bootsybrown

The small ants
The day and night
Crawling on walls
On the ledges of windows

The spies come
Surveying the outposts
Some die when it swaps away
Crushed to tiny bits

The small ants
It never says die
They come again
Through cracked walls

Climbing through open windows
Searching comrades looking for food
Crossing as if the world is theirs
No border no rule to engage

Try all recommended liquids
The small ants still crawling in
The mutation of its lives
The small ants just never go away

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Politics intrigues adventures
Adventures of a life once it is made
Made to fit the image one dreams
Dreams of the way it should happen

Yet life never follow the scripts
Scripts of life others come to join in
In the mold enlarging the influence
Influence of an ego sometimes good

Politics the masks of a face
Face painted in many colours
Colours to suit occasions
Occasions for survival

It is said never trust a politician
The masks covering the face
You will not how it changes
Learn from history; it is greed

Intrigues of power in the hands
The backlashes and hide always
Consolidation to keep the power base
Once tasting it difficult to surrender

The road to find the truth
It is the adventure of a life
Truth will be hard to find
Yet there are people believing it

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By ef12716

Spies Love and Sex
The world spins without a care
Living it through
The spices of life

Monetary gains modules learned
Exposing it they think they should
For other rights without causes
Only a belief in pursuing needs

The damages cause
The death of some....
Is it the right way?
When truth always make us free

The game of life
The players all go out to take
Spices of it dark and light
If only we wake up

stupidity!

By 7328294000 www.photobucket.com

The major stupidity we do
As we go living in the real world
There is no soft landing
One fatal mistake the demon will smile

Lorry drivers long haul carriages
Tiring eyes inept body lies...
Observe some drivers do
Sleeping between lorries

One reported crushed to death
When fellow driver didn't aware
A life just lost in no justification
Only carelessness the mind never realized

On domestic quarrel
Teenagers jump to death
High rise buildings
Thinking their world is at end

Late morning driving
Cruising away sleep deprived
Banged cars on lamp posts or trees
Crushed to death late morning returned

Locked out rooms or apartments
Call the hostel managers or security officers
Sometimes call the fire brigade......
No they climb up drain pipes....

The fall of life
Observe the reality of it
Expose yourself to the routines
Learn from the observation

Drum into your head
There are many ways to life
Don't go the wrong way
The demon waits with a smile!

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“Go try the main door?”
One of them walk to do it
He finds he can't open
“Sorry guys it is locked!”

“Hello boys!
Welcome to my home
Let the game begins
You will learn your lessons”

The black cloth shadow appears
On the fire place smiling away
“You don't have to be afraid
The unknown is for you to find”

They turn around
Staring at the black cloth shadow
“Get prepared guys
For it will come...”

“Can't you let us go?
We have suffered in our walk”
“Guys your pain just started
You haven't learned your lessons”

“You better go to your room
Each room for each person
Lock the door as you fall to slumber
The story will begin in a short while”

The black cloth shadow disappears
Leaving the fear with the guys
“We better stay together
Split we will lose the game”

So they take a room
Every one stays as a group
Some take a shower
Some fall asleep

The stories of their lives
It will begin they know it will
They can't escape
This much they will know

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“Now my dark castles
Walk in and enjoy your life”
The group stands at the door
Fear gripping into their lives

“Is this the final chapter?”
We never know unless we open the door
Maybe it is just a trick to make us fall
We mustn't give up just someone's story”

One of them pushes the door
The creaking sound travels into the night
On the wall the candles light.....
On the table fruits and water

The living room large with sofa chairs
A coffee table lays at the center
Book cases on every corner.....
Books of many titles on any subject

They pour drinks
Gulp it down quickly
They are very thirsty
They are very hungry

Then they survey the rooms
There are 12 rooms for each of them
“Why so exact?
Don't you feel something fishy here?”

“We had travelled many hours
We haven't got our proper meals
And you feel something fishy?
We are lucky to find this castle”

Then they stare at the fire place
It seems to light it up by itself
“Now you know something fishy...
The whole I guess it is!”

“12 rooms 12 of us
In this dark forest we hardly know
Now we are trapped....
There is no window to escape”

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By eric187game http://www.photobucket.com/

They just run
Run out of their lives
Lives of precious diamonds
Diamonds in their souls

Yet they forget to think
As the run with the black cloth shadow
Leading them into his dark castle
Standing majestically stopping their run

“What is this?
Any one knows?”
“The dark castles of the forest
I read something about it”

“What is inside of these castles?”
“As far as I know nothing!”
“You mean no soul in it?”
“Something like that....”

“We are spooked
We are in another dimension
We rushed into it
As dawn is approaching”

“Look around us
There are lights in the darkness
Don't you think something spooky?”
“Hello boys why wait?”

They look upwards
Listening to the laughter
Echoing in the silent night
“It isn't over and you know it!”

“Come on black cloth man
It isn't funny at any more
Changing scenes as you wish
We are tired and we haven't slept”

“Is that a problem?
Is your life worth a sleep?”
“When you sleep, you will not wake up!
I don't think you will like that”

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By paulallen_2006

mosquitoes

The black cloth shadow
Laughing as he disappears
Into the misty white background
“I am watching you!”

The drivers of the political parties
Listening with thundering heartbeats
They look at each other knowing what they did
“Will it end quickly for all of us?”

“I am no magician
I can't say of our future
In this dark forest we are in
The dawn is approaching”

“Do you listen?”
“Is it waterfall?”
“We are saved aren't we?”
“We never know”

As they track down
The sound of falling water
Splashing downwards on the fall
They see it “God is great!”

As they approach it
Little insects flying upwards
Buzzing in their ears....
The pests challenging them

“What are these?
“Aedes mosquitoes!”
“Is this the punishment?
“No medical supplies!”

They run backwards
Far away from the buzzing insects
The tiring souls yet find no peace
Then they see the black cloth shadow

“This way boys
Move your ass quickly!”
They run without thinking
Away from the Aedes mosquitoes

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By Kakashi8818

The laughter in the dark forest
They get the feel of fear.........
As they huddled together plotting
Ways to get home...........

They look at the sky
A few stars shining in the dark clouds
From it they see the dark outline.....
Of forest and the misty shadows

“No....they are still here
Floating amongst the trees”
“I tell you we must repent
This is our only chance!”

Fear make quick decision
Decision to get the monkey away
Away from the dreams of life
Life where harmony should rule

Rule of the game
Game of truth and fair deal
Deal in what we do every day
Day in our lives doing good deeds

The leader smile
“Look light is rising
Then we can discuss again”
“Yeah we still stuck in the forest”

“Now we know
Our greed and power can't work here
In this dark forest other elements rule
There isn't a reason to smile Sir!”

“Hey boys!
The sins will come
Payback will knock your doors
You can't escape; you can't hide!”

“Who are you?”
“I am the truth seeker
I punish those who sin
You are one of those people”

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By Cheaster_bucket

dark shadows

Now the group can't turn back
There is no bridge for them to do
Forward march they must go
They look at each other “now what?”

The misty night shadows
Floating into their view
Emerging from the dark forest
The misty shadows move

“Guys we better hurry!
This isn't good in the forest
These misty shadows aren't human
We must stay together!”

They run following the trail
Legs pounding hard on the wet ground
Hitting broken twigs and fallen leaves
Breathing heavily they run

The misty shadows laugh
“You can't hide from your sins
No matter where you want to hide
We will come to you.....”

They run for hours
Finally they stop
“We can't be running
We must find a way home”

On the big boulders
They stop take a break
“What are those misty shadows?”
They seem to know us”

“Maybe they are us
The way we have sinned
In our political power and greed
Our conscious telling us....”

“You don't talk rubbish
We must find a way home”
“Unless we repent of our sins
Maybe the spirits will let us go”

the lost way 21

By Baybeefoxx

Blood Mountain Falls – GA

The leader of the group
Listening to the talk....
Of things gone wrong
Of events taking them apart

The pack of wolves
They will tear each other apart
When the meat is scarce
The strong takes it all

He walks nearer
Looking at the white mist
A face he knew familiar
“Doom, doom, doom!”

The greed of power
A man will do anything to get it
When it is in his hands
There is no way he is going to give away!

“Well guys I haven't a clue
It's perception derailing one's career
In this hour you want to disagree?”
“We want the truth no more lies!”

The drumbeats hitting louder
In the dark night it sends shiver to one's spine
The fear rearing its head to tempt the soul
In this forest the group decide to stick together

Quickly they move away
Towards the sound of the waterfall
Back tracking wasted an hour to two
Until they find a trail winding through

Half way through the trail
They hear voices chattering away
They stop ears piercing sharp to listen
“You can't escape your sins!”

They turn around
They don't see half the trail
They open their mouths to say
Words hardly formed.....

the lost way 20

By UlquiHimeLove

White Shadows

Into the darkness of the valley
They walk down feeling tired and drained
With the wind softly carrying their breathing
Somewhere the natives wake............

“Hold it guys
We need to break here
A few trees we can hide
We wait for light....”

“Look watermelons!
So many growing here”
Every one rushes to see
“Now we can quench our thirst”

In the silent night
They hear drumbeats
“Doom, doom, doom”
“What is the sound?”

“Somebody's celebration
In this forest we can't be sure”
“Natives?! Oh my god!
The head hunters!”

“We better move
We can't stay any longer
Move it every body
We must find a way home”

Now every body sees
A woman waves at them
Smiling as she floats away
“Who's she?”

“You better ask him
Our leader who hides his side businesses
You should be able to tell us his story”
“I have to nothing to tell”

“Yeah she looks like the woman
Mysteriously murdered and dumped
Bombed into kingdom come!”
“You have to tell us why”

the lost way 19

The girlish image
Brightness shine a while
Background the darkness fence
The tiring souls minds playing tricks again

The bright image smile
Endearing yet seem far away
The tiring eyes try to understand
The night ghost comes?

“Hey see the woman there?”
“What woman in this forest?”
“You don't see her standing by the tree?”
“My friend you are losing your marbles”

“Stop! Stop! Take a break!
There is a woman out there
You don't see her amongst the trees?”
“It's only a white mist”

“Something we do
Taking wealth in our ill-gotten gains
Now we are in this sheet hole
Don't know where it will end!”

“All you saw a woman in the dark?”
Isn't a sign something we did are wrong?”
“These people have brains yet they lost
We shouldn't be at fault....................”

“Stop the argument!
We need to move on
We haven't found our way
Save the energy move shall we?”

The silent walk
Through the darkness
The woman waves
As the group disappears

the lost way 18

By OctoberGirl77

Lost In The Dark Woods

“Did you hear that?!”
That the darkness makes
Makes the mind turning dreaming works
Works to get it right to live

Live in this dark forest
Forest we are banished to walk
Walk into the trap of our greed
Greed the fall for many

“So we better make a decision
Either left or we turn right?”
“We turn left
And let the future shine for us”

They walk for hours
Carrying their tiring bodies
Yet the future seems so far away
They don't know the time of day

They come across a stream
Streaming water clean as light of day
They stop to refresh themselves
They don't see the forest changing

By the time to want to go
The images have changed
They try to to look patterns
They don't find any

They are totally lost
In the darkness of the forest
The fire-flies flying around
Glittering night for a while

the lost way 17

By DaylightMisery

Dark Forest

The tiring drivers
Stopping at the T-junction
They have to decide
The journey to their souls

The dark sky offering no assistance
Only the darkness greeting each of them
“Now where do we go from here?
Do we need to toss a coin?”

They hear the waterfall
The glass without mirror
The sheets of falling water
Splashing hard on the pond

“With all our ill-gotten wealth
Fooling the people telling them lies
Gathering our good fortunes
The party in power.............”

“Here we can't do a thing
In this dark forest we go
What are lessons to be learned?”
“Tell the truth and with honest work”

“Who said that!”
“I watch your every move
The way you make fool of the people
The wealth will not help you...”

“Show yourself
This isn't a child's game”
“You are right
The darkness will make you cry”

Suddenly a strong wind blowing
Bending branches blowing away leaves
The whoring sound of the angry wind
“You are the unsatisfied lovers!”

human trafficking

By selfish654 http://www.photobucket.com/

modern Day Slavery

Human trafficking
The modern slavery
The B-side of human's darkness
All for money someone's misery

Across continents
The young ones snared
When parents aren't aware
In the parks, shopping malls, on streets

The carelessness of guardians and parents
Leaving the young ones playing unsupervised
Believing public areas who will dare.......
A minute or two a child is lost somewhere

Human trafficking
There are needs for this heinous crime
For the untold sleepless nights
Crying for the lost children

the lost way 16

By onelaw2480

Forest at Night

The dark sky the darkness tell
On the drivers walking in single file
Dragging tired feet hoping to find a place
In the jungle they curse their lives

Listening to the waterfall
They walk quickly to find the source
Thirsty episode the hunger calls
In the darkness they still push on

The silence in the darkness
They tune their ears to listen
There is nothing to hear at all
They walk fear in their minds

“We better take a break
In the forsaken place”
“Are we in the jungle?
We seem to walk in circle!”

They look around
In the darkness they can't tell
They can feel the soft breezes
Whoring like unsatisfied women..

“Do you hear?
Women crying in the dark!”
Every body tenses up
Pitching ears to listen

It is only the wind
Brushing leaves and branches
Whirring softly capturing imagination
Then the sparkles of fire flies

The drivers stare
Afraid of the dark now
“Are these ghosts?”
“How do I know?”

They walk quickly
Breaks are over
Along the narrow path
The arrow shows

gerakan graveyard shift

By lunarose666

All Souls Day

Gerakan president says
“I will not go to the backdoor”
Yet in a few months he went in
Eating his own promise lowering his self worth

When a leader has lost his direction
The party warlords will come out fishy
The way they lined up their attacks
Belittling their upbringing and standing

Gerakan ruled Penang
For decades they fed themselves
They didn't have backbones
They leaned on Bee Anne

Bee Anne always is Ameeno
Every move Gerakan couldn't move alone
Somehow Gerakan needed the green
Ameeno sat on it calculating what to receive

Now Gerakan whining in politics
They lost the jewel; they lost the shine
Now they want to make bad on the Chinese
The graveyard shift Gerakan can't take it

The Penang Chinese
No mood to forgive Gerakan
For the leaders have no balls
Standing up for everybody rights

the lost way 15

By beapuff

fog

The little girl brings them
Along the edge of a mountain
Hours of walking finally here
The scene of how nature glow

The drivers – leaders of their communities
Brushing hairs steady eyes watching the scene
The misty white clouds floating amongst trees
Independent yet sustaining the natural flow

The little girl points out to them
“Look at the mist......
Free at the wind blowing
Nature we must take care”

The drivers look to the scenes
Scenes of nature beautifully painted
Painted naturally in God's way
Way of the souls; way to live in harmony

The little girl turns around
“You have to learn
Though you think you are grown up men”
“We are little girl!”

“True and true
Yet you behave like children
Treating Mother Earth as toy
Destroying her beauty and natural glow”

“We want to live an easy life
What else we can't do?”
“Learn from the scriptures
Don't do to others; others won't do it to you”

The little girl waves
As she changes into the wind
“Wait!”
“You have to learn the hard way!”

Now in the jungle
The drivers gathered to think
They hear of voices of many kinds
Lingering imagination of the wild!

the lost way 14

By handysandy31

Nature

Mother Nature
Nature of dreams
Dreams into eyes
Eyes into minds

The drivers smell
The natural aroma floating by
The natural breezes
Whoring their souls

Feel the nature
It surrounds your life
The sustaining ecosystems
It's a cycle to purify

They sit on the grass land
Thinking what they have done
The years before pursuing of profits
Scaring the Mother Nature

They watch the misty clouds
Beautifully white mist turning into shapes
Then it breaks away into tiny pieces
Floating peacefully away

“What have we done?”
“You want wealth and easy life
Now don't get sentimental over it
We got our pursuits.....”

“Yeah now look at us
We are back in time travel
Look at the jungle of greens
Now tell us it is worth the prize?”

The little girl appears
Smiling sweetly eyes of bright
“Follow me this way”
“You again little girl?”

The drivers look at each other
The minds asking questions in silence
As they follow her in quiet walking
The wind whirring songs

the lost way 13

By lil_iliana86 www.photobucket.com

The darkness falls quickly
Quickly the bodies need rest
Rest to recharge energy
Energy to walk for another day

Day as sleep takes over
Over the souls dreams flow
Flow of light into darkness
Darkness of sins where they belong

Belong to the pit
Pit of crying souls
Souls of hands and legs
Legs run without head

Head awakes by the noise
Noise of a horse carriage
Carriage stops by the well
“Well...Want a lift or not?”

Not wanting to stay behind
Behind the dark sky
Sky now with moonlit night
Night of sins living on the dark side

Side door they enter
Enter to another world
World they haven't seen
Seen in their eyes

Eyes observe the surrounding
Surrounding of pebble stones
Stones of gold and diamond
Diamond sparkles tempting fate

Fate is written in life
Life you lead and die
Die in good deeds or bad ways
Ways of the God scriptures flow

the soul turns into the dark side

Ezam sold his principles
Way down to the dark side
Of values once he cherished
Then he turned into the devilish dog

Now he barks disturbing the peace
On the wrong side of the fence
Though in his mind now......
The minted Senator-ship clouds his eyes

Once he thought he was Hang Jebat
Fighting for the oppressed values and rights
Along the way the beautiful maidens came
Swept him away cuddled him to change

Now with alleged wealth
The masters behind, puppet him to dance
He realizes he has no values only somebody's triumph
Blowing trumpet far into the nights

the lost way 12

By drizzlis

Cookies

“How many days now?”
“We have no idea
We seem to walk in circles
On the city of neon lights”

The guy puffs his cigarette
Blowing it with his exhales
“Maybe we are in the dark side
We sold our souls remember?”

Betting on their lives
Lives of politics; game of fortune
Fortune camouflaged as projects
Projects where wealth is made

“We make our point
Why we aren't happy?”
“The ways we conduct our affairs
Only death will make us free”

“We have sinned
We fall to the dark side
We thought we wanted to live easy
One mistake now look at us”

The wealth of the nation
For the future generations
We destroy her natural resources
Leaving a poor state

They sit by the well
Solemn faces eyes of sadness
The way to their lives
Gambling on the dark side

the lost way 11

By shaki4ever_95

Evil Baloons

The drivers sit by a well
Well of wishes; well of fortune
Fortune once they tried
Tried it got hooked then lost souls

Remember the time
Often spin by the old folks
Observe the rich guys
The way they make the nights

“You think we will ever get back?
I mean back to the way we were?”
“We make our wrong turns
We have to seek it out”

One inhales a cigarette
Blowing a big zero in the air
“I think we ask the well
Maybe we will get lucky”

Seeking fortune on others hard labour
Expecting lots of gains in shortest time
Earning it through deceptions and commissions
Knowing it is bad all the way

“I don't think we should try
We have done enough sins
Look at us alive or dead
We don't even know!”

Now we hear
The college rookies running bets
Learning the illegal trade they think is cool
When getting caught falling tears.....

We have put a weak foundation
The moral fibre punches of holes
There is no solid wall to fence it off
We are the ones creating the evil monster

the lost way 10

By fedri

Back in the alley
Alley of neon dark lights
Lights of their souls
Souls they need to change

They walk for hours
Hours in circles.....
Circles of where they should be
Be is just hard to find

One of them doze
Doze into the darkness
Darkness alone he walks
Walks on the railway tracks

Tracks he walks
Walks on for hours
Hours yet he can't finish
Finish the line of his curse

Curse of red eyes
Eyes glowing hard
Hard the ground he steps
Steps into sin the way of hell

Hell he sees
Sees it he screams
Screams into his waking hour
Hour his friends wake him up

“We have to change
Change for our own good
Good for our souls
Souls we must purified!”

The lost way
Of greed,lies, deception and deceit
The way of power crazy
Burning hell burning soul

the lost way 9

By shorty146_2006

The drivers walk
Walk with aimlessly
Aimlessly of life
Life get spooked

“Is it in the city?”
City of our birth?”
“We have no idea
We thought we were

“You know something?
We have sinned big time
Look at what we did
Siphoned off wealth....”

“It's our rights
As leaders we have our benefits”
“We did in in our wrong ways
We told lies and direct tenders”

They walk pass bar parlours
The noisy music and voices of vice
They see a nude woman
Alone with a bottle of whisky

Then they think
They can be her
Sins of their making
Punishment on their greed

They stare at her
The nude woman just ignore
She has her problem.....
Of people like them

When they leave
She gets up and disappears
She hopes she conveys the message
Turn into a new leaf

sex education

By lil_babygurl049

Sex education
The way to avoid social ills

The education system must open up
Let the students learn and understand

We can't live within borders
Hoping nature will take her course

Sex education
It has to start now

Let them learn the truth
How humans are made and born

Let them learn the truth
About diseases and AIDS

Let them learn the truth
Pregnancies not ABC

Let them know
When they go into sexual relationship

There isn't a bed of roses
There could be hollowness

Teach them young
Let them know what it will be

the lost way 8

By lova_03

One such driver apologizes
On the heat he had done
Thinking back on his days
He knows he makes many

He never blames himself
He shifts to his subordinates
When the ruse is found
He makes his way sounding good

He knows there are people
Educated yet can't find the hidden goal
These people sing his virtue
The currying favours for returns

The little girl winks
“I know what you did
You can't admit telling it honestly
The way it is too many holes sinking in”

“You don't understand
I play games we always do
The politicians many masks to unveil”
“Yeah dishonesty will not buy you freedom”

The flame of fire
Glowing within his soul
Catching him burning his body
He cries begging for his life

He collapses on the ground
The other drivers stare at him
“What are you doing?
You have gone mad?”

“You don't see fire on me?
I feel the fire engulf my physical body”
“You are just dreaming
In the city we came”

the lost way 7

By caffeine_inconsistencies

“Are we on familiar grounds?”
“It seems like it yet I find it funny
We arrived without our wheels!
In the city full of games.....”

“Yeah it looks the same
But situation seems different
It's the holy scene.........
We shouldn't be here”

The little girl walks by
“Like what you see?
It's good for your soul
Learn it before it's too late”

“What are you talking?”
“You know what you did
You thought nobody knew
We knew when we taped your soul”

The neon lights dance
On the dark colourful streets
Walking in harmony greeting each other
The drivers feel they are out of time

Time of lies and cheating
Cheating of lopsided works
Works on commissions
Commissions hide in secret mark-up costs

Costs the taxpayers pay
Pay through government give a way
Way of contracts some under OSA
OSA fulfilling the hidden alleys

the lost way 6

By skullzman

Kuala Lumpur by night

The sun going down
Down into row of street lights
Lights sparkle in their eyes
Eyes of living so they believe

“Do you realize how time fly?
We have been for how long?”
“We were asking where we are
Now the night takes us again”

They walk out
Walk northwards
Leaving the row of shops
Smelling the aroma

Cutting to alleys
Weave in and out as they walk
Behind other buildings and shops
Across they see the bright building light

The city twin towers
Glowing high to the sky
Layers and layers of tiger skin
Erotically majestic of man's design

Sharp pointed spears
Challenging the God in the sky
Thunders and lightning hit
It holds steady on its own

“Now we know where we are!
The city of our racing lives!”
“Don't be so jubilant!
We don't have our wheels!”

“It's good to be back
On our familiar ground
Smell it guys.....
Or it is made believe?”

the lost way 5

By JoeSatrini

China Town

In the house of darkness
The fear they feel within
The eyes of many they see
Winking white irises

The drivers stay together
They wish they know
The darkness closing in
As they let fear take hold

The drivers pray
In all their lives they forget
Now in the fear kingdom
They kneel praying for their lives

The guy with the torchlight
Flashing to find a way
When he finds a door knob
He crawls silently there

With hope rising high
He turns the door knob it clicks
“Guys come here quick
There is a way out from here”

When he pushes it opens
The glare of China town back lane
The drivers all run into it
The open street of small trading

Row of shop houses
Displaying all kinds of goods
Along the back street doing roaring businesses
The drivers mix and smell

Sitting in a coffee shop
Ordering drinks and snacks
“Do you know where we are?”
“We have no clue at all!”

the lost way 4

By iambobnoname in dark alleys http://www.photobucket.com/

The drivers walk around
Around the the dark alleys
Alleys of fear the eyes tell
Tell the closure trap in darkness

They walk to the houses
Houses of silence.....
Silence as they listen
Listen for clues of where they are

One driver goes back
Back to find for torchlight
Torchlight to beam to see
See the darkness who's there?

The drivers try the doors
Doors of each house
House stands alone in silence
Silence the scary echo

Back to the little girl
Girl by the windows
Windows the shadow waves
Waves into each eyes

The drivers walk
Walk in a single file
File into the door way
Way of the little girl

When the door closes
Closes the lives they leave behind
Behind reality and make believe
Believe of things minds can't explain

the lost way 3

By MEGAQUEENA

Life of darkness
Darkness brings fear
Fear of facing the truth
Truth they say set you free

The drivers step out of the cars
Facing the dilemma which way to go
All the corners have no entrance
The darkness catching them in

In the dim lit windows
Windows of a soul....
Soul staring on the single bulb
Bulb hanging by a switch

“Switch on the light!
Light the place up
Up with the glow
Glow seems long way ago”

The little girl stares
A long time she stands
The drivers try to0 hard
The little girl just smile

the lost way 2

By immijunk

light

They stare around
Around the large of expanse of silence
Silence beating into their minds
Minds getting worried.....

Worried of rations
Rations they hardly bring
Bring into this forsaken desert
Desert is taking of souls

Souls searching for a way
Way to escape into oblivion
Oblivion of the eyes and minds
Minds to get away quickly

Quickly the drive
Drive with eyes for an escape
Escape back to civilization
Civilization into dark alleys

Alleys of single light
Light of glow
Glow of shadows dance
Dance of entrapment...

the lost way 1

By evy_metal

dark light

The lost way
The drivers hit the road
Leading them into the dark forces
Behind boulders sun going down

Down to the valley
Valley of desert
Desert of emptiness
Emptiness of souls

Souls rearing to fight
Fight in the valley of darkness
Darkness surrounding the stranded drivers
Drivers of skills nature trick their eyes

Eyes in the sky
The shining brightness
A single ray hitting on the desert
Desert of silence........

ipoh gh parking woes

ipoh general hospital

borrowed from Dato' Prof. Dr. Jamaludin Mohaiadin

Round my life in circles
Driving round and round
On the road takes a full turn
Back to the same routine

The sun reaching rays
Spreading heated waves
I see the no ending
Looking for a car park

Ipoh GH
Taxpayers suffer in waiting
Round and round moving in circles
The parking lot the employees take it

Wait at the garbage area
On my left as I stop the car
The morning sun reaching to me
I watch the flow of traffic

My eyes train on the shiny birds
Black shining feathers with red eyes
Flocking in group tweeting loudly
I haven't seen this type of birds.....

It reminds of Raven
It is the small version of it
Like the humming bird family's group
Sitting on the tree branches

On my right the mosque
Gate closed to keep its parking bays
Else some Muslim drivers may park
Then they walk to general hospital

Round and round I go again
Flow with the traffic easing back
Cars moving in without stopping
Is this what life all about?

Round in circles
Miss one turn come back again
Learn and gain experiences
Face life with the full blast