There once was a gypsy girl,
With eyes marked by the sea.
Fire burnt within her curl,
As her heart cries out..."Free!”
She danced to music no one heard,

As the sun rises to meet the day,
As the butterflies come out to pla
The world opens her eyes.
As another night dies,
I roll out of bed,

Something beautiful in the air,
As out the window I stare.
A crooked beauty in the trees,
A whistling briskness in the breez
Hanging instruments dance a broken

When the pain in my heart has over
Lord please wipe away my tears so
When my burdens crush down upon th
Lord lift me up and set me apart.
My Savior, My Shield, My Hope,

She smokes her cigarette at noon,
Her hopes tied to a freed balloon.
She thinks of what she has that is
And if it was worth the cost.
But she rages on...

What can I do...
To get away from you?
Where can I hide
From my heart’s pride?
She wants what she wants...

You walk around on pink cotton clo
Cleverly hiding under multiple shr
A darkness lies in your heart,
Riddles and rhymes that can tear o
A kindness mocks from your lips,

It was a pull I felt that led me
A waking dream I would have when
I never imagined life would become
Or experience all that I feel.
I see now when it did all begin,

My heart has lost her will to sing
As she feels the bite of love’s st
I miss your face,
And your voice that drips black la
I’ve lost the will to write,

I know a girl colored red,
Fire woven throughout her head.
Rage built from sadness,
Loneliness leads to madness.
She treads softly still,

Since you’ve left me all alone,
I have no sun to light my world.
No warmth with which to seek comfo
No lamp to guide my path.
You’ve taken all the stars with yo

I am but a girl,
Afraid of the world.
I wear my heart,
On my sleeve torn apart.
I run with the wind,

These foolish eyes cry,
This foolish heart may die.
My dreams are but lies,
Of long lost ties.
Foolishness fills the space inside

I swing on the branches of hope...
That no matter what, the ground wi
It will not swallow me whole.
It may obtain pieces of me never t
But it will not swallow the light

Her eyes burned open and numb,
Her compassion un-waivered and dum
Losing her mind into the sun,
Her colors run undone.
She’s lost herself again in the tr

When you left,
The charcoaled night opened up
And swallowed the last fiery slive
Then the darkness swallowed my pit
~c.l.l./Fatima Amal (2016)

The sun cracks open the night,
With her rays of light,
Like a lightning bolt shot across
As my heart begins to cry.
The wind breathes softly through

Well she found that sweet spot,
Where her heart can pick the knot.
Words found a path back into her h
They were pleased to submit to her
Her view of her dreams is still co

My brain is on fire, fire
Because you are a liar, liar.
You let me drown in the mire,
Pleading to the choir.
I stare higher, higher

I danced with a hawk today,
She showed me how to find my way.
She led me to my heart locked tigh
She made me blind to give me sight
I walked with her, heard her call

When I sit down to spill out some
My heart flies as free as the bird
When I sit down and pour out my s
I fill the parts of me that are un
When I sit down and think of your

I am broken, I am bound,
Yet I have hope to be found.
I search for Grace,
Let God pour His love upon my fac
I have been knocked down,

You hear their words so strong wit
And you struggle to see my light.
As lies fall out upon their lips,
The walls of my heart slowly rips.
But I’ll bite my tongue and walk

I was living a lucid dream,
I was coming apart at the seams.
I did what I could to control cha
Yet life was set to re-arrange.
I held fast to the world I knew,

Let me drown out the world for a b
That I might extinguish the fire
Let me tear down these walls from
So that I may dissolve the weight
I scorched them all up with the fl

I walk a lonely road,
I carry a burdened load.
Sin a plenty to fill my bag,
Up this mountain I lag.
No one to hear my heart,

My pen moves to spit out the poiso
Your empty thoughtless days.
Lips as dark as your heart,
A soul torn apart.
A mind writhing in pain,

I am an endless well,
My anxiety brings me hell.
My tongue has a razor-edge,
And my hopes live on a ledge.
My compassion is cruel,

Once upon a time,
I gave you my heart.
Once upon a time,
You tore it apart.
I bared my soul to you,

I sing a sad story,
Of loss and of glory.
I’ve been but a sparrow all my lif
Encumbered by great strife.
I’ve had dreams come true,

I have a hope that will be fulfill
I have a wound that will be healed
I have a faith that is sealed.
I have the Grace of God to shield
For He is mighty in His way,

Where have they gone,
Flown away in a song.
Have they blown away to the sea,
Some place my heart longs to be.
I used to hold them so dear,

I am broken, I am bound.
Put me back together, so I may be
O’ Lord, Please hear my plea.
Please shine down all your love an
I’m sorry I’ve lost my way,

He saw everything,
He saw nothing,
Because he shut that door to his e
He never looked back.
He watched her pack.

It’s better this way...
There are no words I need to say.
I will say them to myself at night
As I look up at the moon’s crysta
It’s better this way,

Sometimes I need to deafen myself
From the screaming... so loud.
To take cover from the tornado of
And selfish choices.
I walk outside looking in,