VEILS OF MISERY

Ah they have a little trouble walking…
The carpets moving, the aisle is talking
Something that was buried and dead
Has slowly begun raising its head
The people who were all dormant
Are realizing they’ve been ignorant
The bodies that lay under their feet
Have started lifting their heads
We have been to you just reptiles
But soon we’ll creep into your beds
These people will fry you alive, tyrant,
When they see their blood
And how to it you shrugged!
When they see their veils of misery
And realize that they were drugged
These people are not all that ignorant
These people are duped, they’re innocent

DARK ALLEYS

Dazzling lights, the display of wealth…
Here we drink to each other’s health.
The music plays and laughter echoes;
The dance is on… Be on your toes!
When it all stops, all falls silent;
We step back. We all retire…
We walk out of the joyful tent.
We disperse from the bonfire.
Some leave in their great chariots,
Some with the ladies from the dance;
Some go with other lords or dames
Been offered a ride, just by chance.
And finally I too look around
Making up my mind to leave…
A truth that is so simple and stark:
I have to walk out into the dark…
I have to enter that same alley…
Where there’s no one with me.

BURNS...

It’s one thing that does not go.
It stays there and raises concerns…
It burns!

They branded us with metal and fire.
They all have marked us taking turns…
It burns!

Your face has never left my eyes.
It disappears and again it returns…
It burns!

My heart is just way too hostile.
It casts to fire whatever it learns…
It burns!

CRYING FOR THE LIGHT

Here I am crying for it to end
Now at its darkest is the night
Here I sit in the darkness and
Just behold your constant light

THE OLD BOX

Opened the old box;
Found some dreams
In pieces collected…
Once prized and valued…
…And now rejected.

In the old chest
Found some dreams
Heard old whispers
Drowned in screams
Found “the love”…
Wrapped in an old cloth…
With a faded fragrance
Bearing in silence
The chastising years
Soaked in blood
Dried and brown…
Opened it and the contents…
Were some dreams
Veiled by screams…

ILLUSION

It's a wall with a door painted on it.
You stand before it in all your pride...
You are proud that you will not enter;
but, you can't ever reach this side.
This door that you stand before
is but a wall, and nothing more.

METUS

La ternura corre como niña asustada
entre los caballeros de lanza y espada.
-Rishiraj

FREIHEIT

There on the horizon, see…
We’ll fly once we are free.
Here take this anvil, friend,
Put your chains over it and
Stand unwavering on the ground;
Lift your hammer, bring it down.
That will be the end of all these pains.
We'll glide, once we break the chains.

DEVIL WITHIN

The child inside me is very afraid;
in depths of anguish with none to console.
The demons rise and surround him
and urge him not to worry anymore.
The child cries and sobs wildly…
and the demons go truly insane.
The demons collect head after head,
but the child doesn’t cease to complain.
The innocence bleeds and all goes red,
but no blood is seen on the skin.
The child inside me is very afraid
and seeks refuge in the devil within.

THIS THIRST

Here also it used to rain…
Here also we used to dance.
Now, with you gone, nothing remains;
only burning winds and tattered lips.
And this walk, this endless drifting…
in these burning sands.
These charred feet, these burning eyes
This thirst…
and your absence…
What should I await but my end?

MEMENTO VIVERE

Although for you I have this love…
I cannot die just for your sake.
My life is an ancient promise;
a pillar that helps the temple stand.
My life stands for many things
that go well beyond your name.

I cannot die just for your sake…
because I wasn’t born to die for you,
but to lend a shoulder to those who weep.
My life is a ray of hope
For many who put their trust in me;
I cannot die just for your sake.

MONS IGNIFER

There’s an explosion every second
Though to you I may seem dormant
Magma of craze within my core
Bursts out of each and every vent
I am in a ceaseless eruption
Vomiting flames each moment
I no longer want to come after you
The wolves within me chase your scent

ARDKHELENE ARTRASLAK

Time to walk the same path
That is illumined by your light
Time to walk away from rage
Dawn approaches breaking the night
Time to go beyond this stage
Time to walk the same path
That leads to the feet of the sage
Time for separation to end now
Finally the time for us to meet
Time to walk within your light
Time to walk towards your feet

PAIN

These were simply wasted years, of my life that passed in fears
Fears that my each effort might just end up going in vain
Appalled at your utter decency, frightened, in fact, by my fancy
Driven by a strange urgency, I stood on the verge of going insane
I stood there… suffering, waiting, on the verge of going insane
How could I bear so much pain?

For a long time I somehow waited, hopeful, however, too ill fated
And then, plagued by a strange feeling, I could no longer refrain
And I seeked you in every place, with a vague memory of your face
But you weren’t there, not a trace. Without you I am no more sane
Without the assurance that you are there, I am nothing but insane
How could I bear this constant pain?

BULLETS WITH AN INSCRIPTION

I have got no “bullet with your name”
But you may be downed all the same
For here inside me all things do burn
Firing bullet after bullet with the inscription
“To whomsoever it may concern”

FLASHBACKS

I no longer wish to cry
You are tired, so am I
I don’t want to shed more tears
But I have these ancient fears
That once again they will embrace me
I hide from shadows and they will trace me
The shadows of my yesterday
The shadows that will come and stay

I don’t wish to embrace pain
But it embraces me again and again
I don’t want to stay awake and weep
But these flashbacks don’t let me sleep

CAPTOR

Here I wait... chained and shackled
Trembling with every single sound
I hear... those steps get constantly louder
Who approaches?
My deliverer or my captor?
Here she comes...
Here she comes...

WRITTEN IN FIRE

It’s all gone black, gone off the track
It’s gone from where it can’t be back
It’s gone past frontiers, it can’t return
Let it burn

Beauty, scars, Peace and wars
All on this ground is but a farce
Don’t cry for it, not your concern
Let it burn

Fire all around, sky and ground
What isn’t burning is not found
Sooner or later will come its turn
Let it burn

Useless is light, useless night
Useless friendship, so is fight
Useless whatsoever you learn
Let it burn

THE LAMP OF THE CARAVAN

Outside howls a cold desert at night
Inside a game of darkness and light
Light everywhere around the camp
But intense darkness under the lamp

SONNET FOR YOU

My tears might have been shed alone
My smiles might have gone unseen
But I know and I've always known
You are with me and you've always been

Light and darkness, formless, timeless
The melody eternal when birds sing
I let go off my pride and confess
You are "the all and the everything"

Bliss, you are, endless for me
Beauty, you are there, to see
Chains of your love make me free
Give me your hand and together we

Watch the sunset, watch the dawn
Hand in hand... we go... on and on

Mother, I change all...

You know not what’s rising after a fall
See me rise and see how I change all

I BURN

My little moment of hope has ended
Here I am thrown back at the start
Flowers that you brought withered away
I am lost in the dark of my martial heart
My militarized shadow has engulfed me
Again the same current is in the wire
You left and I, with you, walked away too
What’s left is a flaming body of fire

DEPERSONIFICATION

There are omens that tell me all
I hear voices that drown your call
I see here a crimson ground
Mutilated corpses all around
I don't know well what I hear or see
It's all a distorted reality

MAHAKAL

You've just got glimpses of my mind
And you think you've known my kind
So many corpses I've left behind
Nothing more sinister you will find
Judge me not for what you see
None survives after knowing me

HERE...

The flames of life encircling me
The clapping of one hand alone...
Pleasure beyond pleasure itself
That's the ecstasy I have known
Something you won't know, my friend,
Unless to me, you give your hand...

HABÍA OSCURIDAD, HUBO LUZ

Lights everywhere, all around joy
Darkness, you're trying to destroy
But remember, light is this moment
Darkness is a situation; light, an event
Darkness is where light is contained
Darkness is natural, light maintained
To maintain light you need your tools
Light struggles and darkness rules
Darkness is needed for light to shine
Darkness is endless beyond each line
Light is minute, light is fine
Light is yours and darkness mine

VANITAS III

Hold me now or you may never do so
The moment is there but it will go
We may be buried, or we may burn
"For dust we are, and to dust we shall return"

MITTERNACHT

Love should have no passion at all
It should rather be like sunlight
One could enjoy it on a cold noon
And peacefully sleep during the night

VANITAS II

It's all desolated, it's all inert
It's all over! Your dungeon and whips...
All has become one vast desert
Behold the advent of Apocalypse

VANITAS I

It's all a boon this sadness and joy
A gift of nature is your every breath
Take nothing for granted, my love,
For life's a gap between death and death

LONG ROADS

Walking with winds in my hair
Long roads with a gun in hand
Nothing to trust, none to care
I walk, I fall, I crawl, I stand
And walk again, and I fall again
I go on advancing despite pain
Long roads with a gun in hand
By and by I'll reach your land
I keep falling and crying in pain
I rise, I stand and I walk again
Unstoppable I have become
Like a thunder... here I come

SONETO III

Soy la imagen de después de  una matanza
No suena nada aquí en mi reino abolido
Un eco del silencio y la pura desesperanza
En las ruinas lloro por el palacio demolido

Tengo en las manos ahora solamente arena
Y este viento fuerte me provoca temores
Temores de lo que ahora entre en la escena
Ya no hay puertas ni paredes; sólo dolores

¿Qué hago ahora que todo se volvió nada?
¿Ya qué defiendo? Está caído el fuerte
Sólo veo polvo hasta donde llega la mirada

No tengo fuerzas de recoger la suerte
Que hecha pedazos aquí está tirada
Ya no hay qué pedir excepto la muerte…

ME ENCANTA EL JUEGO

¡Qué buen juego!
Me encanta
Me encanta estarme al lado tuyo
Y jugar
¡Qué juego!
Una aventura es
Protegerte
Cada día
Y acompañarte
Compartir contigo
Todo lo que llevo
Y es una aventura
Defender juntos
Todo lo que representamos
Y todo lo que nos representa
Pero si... acaso... te llevan a ti
Para qué ya…
Ya no quiero jugar más
Ya me rindo también yo
Y ando sin protección
Para qué ya…
Que me lleven también a mí
Ya no…
No quiero jugar más
Pues ya…
adiós

SALAAM

I gave my head and now rejoice
Burning coals with you seem flowers
Sacred is my love for you, love,
What else is sacred in the universe?

THE RUINS

In this fort I had killers around
Who stalked me without a sound…
With daggers in hands and posing as friends
They breached the lands where I was found
Where are they? Now all is gone…
Without a trace, in the ruined palace
Here I am all alone

What took me over for all this while?
All has turned into this formless pile…
Everything is desolated, absolutely annihilated
In dust and devastated by something purely vile
Where is it? Now all is gone…
From earth’s face, in the ruined palace
Here I am all alone

Something I wanted to hide
Something within, not outside
That came out and… roamed on this land
Ate my each friend who stalked my side
Whence it came? Now all is gone…
This sorry place, in the ruined palace
Here I am all alone

UBI SUNT?

With my elbow on my knee
And my hand on my head
I contemplate and try to see
All that once lived is now dead

And I feel it in my bones
This chill of the very strict end
When I slip out of my hand
Just like air, just like sand

SONNET VI

Living in your world of safety
Breathing in just pure air
Beyond your boundaries I exist
Where life is not always fair

Here lies a wasteland that's inert
With just dried blood on the stones
Pure wilderness, an endless desert
A desert full of corpses and bones

You rule your bed of rose petals
But don't step out of your sheath
There you are and here I am...
I rule the land of plague and death

Be forever where you have been
Or you'll see what you've never seen

AAAAAAAAH (2)

To fight the demons that hound me ever...
I raise an army of the dead...
I raise my voice and scream hard...
To drown out the voices in my head...

AAAAAAAAAAAAH

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah' is my response to each inquiry...
Territorial, violent, elusive and fiery...
Howling constantly... just changing tone...
Moving with the pack, yet, always alone...

MINDARK

Melancholy day and night
All obscure, nothing bright
Who knows what you may find
If i let You in my mind

AIM

Walking towards it is really the game
Once you reach, you lose your aim

AGNI 1

So pure...
Always sure...
whatever you touch
Becomes yours...
Your own and is never found...
You consume air, you consume ground,
You consume silence, consume sound,
You consume the free, and the bound...
You consume me and my each desire...
I bow to you, my goddess, Fire.

KNOW YOUR ROLE...

Let the rest just go to hell
know your role and play it well

NAMELESS VERSES 2012 (5)

There you sow and I watch you plant
There you sing and I am lost in the chant
There your eyes full of hopes
Here I pray you get all you want...

SIN PERCEPCIÓN

It doesn’t stay, it simply runs
I don’t have youth, I had it once

For youth is strength, for it is energy
Energy to fight, energy to win
But it’s also energy to scream in agony
To feel the heat of the craze within

I don’t want youth! No, not again…
I don’t want the strength to feel pain!

It’s gone and now I am finally cold
Calm like a tree that stands in ashes
That got struck by a thunderbolt

No youth please… No energy either…
I am good, being frail and used up…

I am good; I can no more hear…
My heartbeats now are pure silence…
I am good; I can no more feel…
The constant anguish of your absence…

PERFORMANCE

Witnessing the drama, be not appalled
I live just to keep you enthralled
Let me perform, I beg your silence
Just behold! My dear audience
This constant and live performance

A MAN, NOT A GUY

For honor I live or die
I am gallant; I am shy
I rejoice and I do sigh
I smile and at times cry
I ain't perfect, but I try
I am a man, not a guy

I WAIT

If I am not there... in your sight
Don't think of me... run with the pack
Hunt well my child, even in my spite
I've already taught you how to attack
If I can’t walk with you, it’s alright
Tell me your tales once you are back

?

There are no partitions in my being
I am one! Without a single split
I am yet to understand why with me
They fall in love and fall out of it

SEE ME NOW

You saw me crude, you saw me raw
You shouldn't have seen when you saw
I'll take you to theatrics if you allow
I am all spectacle, watch me now

NAMELESS VERSES 2012 (4)

I so humble, you so grand
You are so distant my friend
I scream your name, I have no choice
Or you call yourself in my voice

NIGHT

Love should have no passion at all
It should rather be like sunlight
One could enjoy it on a cold noon
And peacefully sleep during the night

NAMELESS VERSES 2012 (3)

I don't know... but our talks
make me feel each day is new
'Smile' is what happens to me
Every time I come 'fore you

NAMELESS VERSES 2012 (2)

I conclude after thinking a lot
A major purpose of my life
is, my love, having your thought.

HERE...

Here...
Take my hand, and glide with me
You've not lived yet, it's been in vain
All your life, my love, you have...
just been trying to appear sane

WINE

Wine of life... I quit you; however
Once in a while I may have a cup
The world may think otherwise, but
I never really gave you up

WARRIORS

Rising like a thunderstorm
Our roars will frighten the beasts of the dark
Writing the future, erasing the past
We are authors of fire to this land
Hand in hand we march ahead
Nothing stops us when we advance
We are yet in furnace... taking shape,
We're in making, we're brothers in arms

NAMELESS VERSES 2012 (1)

Come out of this chaos a bit
Close your eyes and with me sit
Don't forget my peaceful dove
That you and I are absolute love

DESERT

I have become friends with pain
As I have heard you love to hurt
I have heard you’re friends with rain
So, around me, I created this desert

RANDOM VERSES 2012

I go to your temple every dawn
All other idols I come upon
But don’t find a deity who can care
As you are no longer there


Although my course has been upturned
Although my wings have been burned
As long as I can see your light
Nothing at all can end my flight


Even if you vanquish me
Even if you win the war
You won’t ever forget me
On you I’ll stay like a scar


I am a sea and you are a cup
You bow down, I can’t come up
If you bow, you may have some
You will drown, though, if I come



If I can’t walk with you, it’s alright
I can hear your tales with concern
I can fare you well with lots of love
I can embrace you… once you return


Love isn’t really what I beseech
Neither do anything I want to teach
I just want to be a step, so that…
You put your foot on me and reach


My feet on the same ground as yours,
And my hands touching stars...
While I transfer the celestial light to you
You simply help me heal my scars...


What we share no one has known, my friend
And believe me, no one ever would
Our friendship will be harshly judged
And our sanctity will be misunderstood


Submit I will before your throne
Leave your armies and come alone


Walking or standing without you
Would, my love, be all the same
I, without you, am an aimless path
You, without me, a pathless aim


All has been offered… and turned back
What else is there that I could give?
Without you all is poison here…
Now take this life, who wants to live?

ETHER

King, warrior, soldier and sailor
Your ethereal world, where all is valor
All is beauty, all is art
All… including my longing heart

I am here waiting on the borderline
Suspended between your world and mine
Come release me from suspension
Take me there to your dimension

Ruined palaces… Fallen towers…
Death is constant… Look wherever…
Ephemeral here… all in ours
Take us to yours where all is forever

FOR HER

We are all suitors of your heart
We may not finish but we begin
We try our best to play our part
Though most of us will never win

See us once and the pains we take
To see you just once in a while
Every day just for your sake
In spite of agonies we smile

You teach us love and we slowly learn
Love towards all that is
For all beings the utmost concern
For us, we know, all is this

We will walk on now to reach your sides
We have seen you well, before we start
We will employ all our maps and guides
We’ll try our best to reach your heart

-Rishiraj

LASER

Heart, love, soul and beauty
Force, valor, rights and duty
All went in a big furnace
Molded to become a single face
A single face of concentration
A beam of laser right straight
Each photon behind the other
Staying together at any rate

PUEDE QUE...

Puede que te quedes al aire
Expuesto a todo
Sin velos de la sociedad
En un desierto sin fronteras
Quizás los carroñeros te coman a mordiscos
Y que no quede nada de lo que fuiste

ORDER, ORDER

In broad daylight you with your tongue
And I with my fists restrained
You with your guards, with your sentries
And I… in every way refrained
In the day you with your guns
And I with nothing but my fears
You with your batons and your words
And I with nothing but my tears
During the day you and I
Face to face and I simply cry

And nights falls and departs the light
And to me belongs now every place
I take you out so you can attend
My own judgment of your case
Now it’s your turn to hear the words
With no one around you to embrace
I with my sledgehammer and my arms
You in anticipation with your face

KRISTALLNACHT

Invoco a Marte, el señor de señores
Que venga y lo destruya todo
Que se necesita ya la destrucción entera
Para poder levantar paz de los desechos
Para poder apreciar de nuevo los palacios
Se necesita vivir en las ruinas
Invoco a las dagas y a las espadas
Y les ruego un derramamiento
Suplico un domingo sangriento
Una masacre de San Valentín
Espero la muerte personificada
La aniquilación mismísima
El advenimiento del apocalipsis
Yo pido otro Hiroshima
Que haya guerra aunque de flores
Que entre la guerrilla de nuevo en la Habana
Como el talibán en Kabul entró
Se ruega un día de justicia ahora
Una noche de los cristales rotos

LENGUA ARDIENTE

Donde tenía rostro ahora tengo angustia
Donde tenía ojos tengo agua salada
Tenía esperanzas y tenía futuro
Ahora sólo carne helada
Donde tenía boca sólo queda fuego
Y en vez de corazón absoluto dolor
No tengo lengua sino llamas ardientes
Y tú quieres que hable de amor…

DESERT AND I WE BECOME ONE

You put me in scorching heat
I make a friend out of Sun
Force me in a boundless desert
Desert and I, we become one
Birds of carrion over me
I lend them my shoulder to sit
Wind crashes on my face
I just try smiling at it
Sands rise to engulf me
I just let them embrace tight
And the night is so very cold
But I pass it and wait for light
Remember, but, the day approaches
I already see many a trace
As a war ensues between our forces
Once again we’ll be face to face
With me, will be the Sun and the sands
Birds of carrion and their seeking eyes
The cold, the winds and the night
Deathly heat and ruthless skies
And then we battle in this desert
You, to me, once, here, threw
These all are my mates now
You just have your men with you

SONNET V

I feel like walking hand in hand
With you; my most precious friend,
Amid the chants of a Buddhist dawn;
In the breeze of a Chinese lawn…

I feel like dipping my mouth and drink
The holy waters from the brink
Of a lonely stream bright and fair
But not without you by me there

I feel like running through the scent
Of flowers that are never spent
Brushing across the children who
Chase butterflies and smile at you

So let’s get lost never to be found
And together reach that holy ground

AUF WIEDERSEHEN

Take these; these are for you, love
Time has come for us to part
I carried them through those endless sands
All along I’ve had them in my heart

I never slowed down on my way
Walking I’ve been night and day
With you constantly before my eyes
Amid the echo of my lonely cries

Now that we are face to face
Look at me once and do not grieve
Fare me well with one smile
Have my gems and I shall leave

SONNET IV

When I resist, you call me criminal
When I inquire, you silence my voice
When I suffer, you blame my choices
But when I choose, I have no choice

I turn to God, I turn to nature
You destroy nature and laugh at me
You say there’s no such thing as God
All this is… because it had to be

There’s no truth, there’s no voice
There’s no justice and no choice
Nature’s dead and so is the rest
There’s no god; to you I request

Tell me why these shocks are there?
Why is life an electric chair?

APOCALYPSIS

Cada noche me rodean los demonios
Que me hacen torcer en la cama
Si sigo ahí…
Acostado…
¿O me levanto de una vez… y para siempre?
Si me levanto, seré un arma
Si me levanto, lo perderé todo
Si me levanto…
Se levantará la muerte…
Y andará loca por las calles
Y si sigo acostado…
¡Seré condenado!
Eternamente…
Pues que oigo gritos
Gritos que no me dejan en paz
Gritos que vienen de otro plano
Gritos de los que ninguno es humano
O ya no puedo reconocer si lo es…
Si me levanto…
Se levantará la muerte…
Y andará loca por las calles
Si me levanto, se tumbarán muchos
Si me levanto, jamás me perdonarán
Los sonámbulos que lo persiguen todo
Todo lo que los intente despertar
La vida gemirá y habrá sangre
Arderán las alas de la civilización…
Los gritos que oigo los amplificaré
Para que lleguen a cada oído
Para que haya ecos por las noches
Si me levanto…
Se levantará la muerte…
Y andará loca por las calles

IN ABSENTIA

Be not afraid, panic not!
I am pleased just to see you live
Your attention, I don't demand
If I love you... I just give...
I will hold you when you fall
I will be there when you call
When you need some solitude
I will disappear, won't intrude
For your roots, I'll be a ground
Like sea to a fish, I'll be around
My love won't ever let you alone
It would protect you like Ozone
You won't even notice if it's present
My Love for you is so constant

SONETO I

No se pare Señora que eso es inútil
No se dañe la alegría por tristeza ajena
No se gaste en un esfuerzo fútil
Siga adelante; yo no valgo la pena…

Lo nuestro es un firmamento perdido
Las estrellas falsas y sangrientos azares
Este momento es un momento perdido
A usted la necesitan en otros lugares

Ver cómo usted logra e intenta
Eso es amor como me lo han dicho
Mi alegría será en verla contenta

Váyase, dama, con su alma helada
Que siga en camino sin darse vuelta
Mientras yo me convierto en nada

COME FLY

All you have known yet is mundane
You don’t know a thing beyond joy and pain
You haven’t ever transcended, it seems
You have lived always on the extremes
You know waters of your vicinity
You know nothing of fluidity
I talk of getting out of pond
I talk of skies and far beyond
I offer you wings; I talk of flight
I talk of worlds beyond your sight
I offer you this hand of mine
I offer you the touch of divine

-  Rishiraj

SONNET III

All pleasant, all seemed alive
Nothing seemed to be inert
All life just seemed to thrive
Flowers filled this arid desert

Nights seemed brighter than days
Days seemed cooler than nights
Hope seemed to cut through haze
My dark heart seemed full of light

Love made me believe it all
All seemed likely and plausible
In those bright moments, friend
Even reaching you seemed possible

In my face now reality screams…
How impossible it all seems!

SILENCIO IMPUESTO

A ti te llamo,
a ti...
con todo el amor del mundo...
y con la desesperanza que suele provocar
el amor o otras emociones semejantes.
Grito tu nombre...
aquí...
en esta soledad.
Canto tu nombre,
gimo tu nombre,
beso tu nombre,
soplo tu nombre,
suspiro tu nombre,
y vuelvo a suspirar...
Y lo grito de nuevo...
y vuelvo a suspirar
mas, mi amor,
la voz no pasa...

- Rishiraj

I DREAM OF FREEDOM

I am a friend…

A friend to those who are in chains
A friend of those who dream to be free
A friend to all who cannot see,
Whose eyes are blinded ‘cause of tears…
I am a friend
Here, take my hand
I am a fellow dreamer
I dream of freedom

I am death

Death to all who feed on pains
Death to all who keep you from flight
Death to all who own the cage
Death to all who cannot see,
Whose eyes are blinded ‘cause of greed…
I am death
Here, give me your breath
I dream of freedom
And you keep me from it…

-    Rishiraj