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The Problem With Following the Rules

Requests

I want to see him nourish and blossom

out of the little flower he so comfortably resides in.

I want him to be the best in his mind.

I want him to realize that it doesn't matter about the differences between me and him

or the similarities.

I want him to grow up to be someone who enjoys his life.

I want him to grow up to be the reason I saw purpose in mine.

I want him to be everlastingly content.

I want him to smile.

I want him to fly.

I want him to soar.

And lastly, I want him to feel safe and loved and never once ashamed,

because Waheguru, I am afraid he doesn't feel safe or loved.

But I love him.

I love him with so much heart that I can feel my body turn rigid and cold

whenever I see him with his lifeless eyes and salty tears.  

I hope he finds the courage one day to look beyond the small words

and stand tall against all those who expected his failure,

who expected his downfall,

who expected his end.

I know one day I will see him rise and rise and rise.

And only then, will I see that my life was not about me at all.

It was always, always about him.

What If?

We linger. We hesitate. We doubt.

We become anxious, waiting for truths.

We become nervous, expecting lies.

We become curious of the unknowns, and yet

We become afraid of knowing.

Because 

What if the truths I learn, I wish were lies?

What if?

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

On Thursday, July 17, Israel forces invaded Gaza. One week later, on July 24, a United Nations school was bombed, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens. 

Many of you have probably heard about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, due to the recent warlike acts Israel conducted in Gaza. But before I begin my description of this dispute, let me just say this blatantly: I show no adamant support for either side. Palestine started the conflict by invading Israel, causing Israel to counterattack, which was a practical response. But as the conflict has been drawn out, Israel has conducted more inhumane acts, killing many more innocent civilians than Palestine has. It is no secret that both sides have committed wrongdoings, but a resolution must be reached now rather than later, because the more lives that are lost, the more innocent victims that are wounded or killed in this bloody conflict makes each side in this discord more and more unforgivable. Coming to an agreement will become even more difficult if each side continues to execute barbaric actions. 

It is so crucial to understand that time is a huge problem. Along with what I stated above, it is important to be conscious that each new generation is more ferocious than the previous ones, because each generation is fed with information from the past. Each new generation is born and grown up to think that the other side is an unforgivable enemy, creating a more and more ferocious war and making it less likely to compromise. 

But there are three potential resolutions to end the conflict: 

1. One-state solution - In this solution, both sides are put together in one pluralistic state.
• Problem: After implementing this solution, Arabs will soon start to outnumber Jews, giving Arabs more power to vote against everything that makes Israel a Jewish state. Israelis will not willingly become a minority in their own state (which they created to escape persecution and anti-Semitic views) against a population they consider belligerent. The conflict would arise again, making this solution impractical.
2. Destroy one side - Another option that extremists prefer is the complete destruction of the opposite side. Palestinian extremists would abolish Israel and replace it with a single Palestinian state and makes Jews the minority. Israeli extremists would take the West Bank and Gaza entirely without consent, and turn Palestinians into second-class citizens, in a way similar to the apartheid in South Africa, where there is a complete segregation of both sides. Either that, or Palestinians would be expelled altogether. 
• Problem: This solution involves the complete ignorance of human rights, because both sides will exploit each other if they win.
3. Two-state solution - Of all the proposed solutions, this one seems the most plausible, because it can create long-term peace. Each side would get its own independent state, but there are many details that would have to be worked out in order to make this resolution successful: 
• Jerusalem: Located  in the middle of Jewish and Muslim holy sites, Israel and Palestine both claim Jerusalem as their capital. 
• West Bank borders: Israelis have set up communities right outside the Palestinian line, making it difficult on where the borders should be drawn. 
• Refugees: Officially, there are 7 million Palestinian refugees whose descendants fled or were expelled from Israel. Palestinians ask for "the right of return," meaning that these refugees can come back with full rights. But by authorizing 7 million Palestinians to return will give Palestine a bigger population and more power over Israel, something Israel will not allow.
• Security: Palestinians want a sovereign state, but Israel is concerned that giving Palestine independence will grant Palestine to ally with other Middle Eastern countries and invade Israel. Thus, any sort of compromise in this situation will force Palestine to give up some sovereignty, allowing Israel the power to veto Palestinian decisions on security and sovereignty, something that Palestine will not allow. 

No solution is perfect as is evident above. All solutions contain problems, but it is important to choose the best one and proceed or this conflict can carry on forever, killing more people.

Also, a Palestinian supporter currently living in Gaza is tweeting alongside explosions. His tweets are very powerful and vivid. Link: https://twitter.com/imPalestine

(Reference: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/17/5902177/9-questions-about-the-israel-palestine-conflict-you-were-too/in/5655640)

Beautiful and Twisted

Some people ask where you come from.

But I know your twisted ways.

You reach down into the dark, filthy souls of the inflicted

and bring their thoughts out into the dim light,

Only concealing them with delicate words and buried meanings.

You make the rules tough, don’t you?

You ask for my deepest fears, my loneliest days, the broken pieces of my taped up heart.

You make my scrapes and burns come back to life,

Making them as vivid as if I’m enduring them once again.

But even then, I let you, because you’re the only one that understands me in my shattered state.

Yet, when I don’t want you anymore, I throw you away.

I don’t look for you or call for you, but you somehow always have a way of finding me,

never minding how I treated you, never minding that I kept you away.

Because the truth is, reaching for you from the inside is not as easy as

reaching for you from the outside.

After all, you do make me as cold as those days with colorless skies,

as warm as the scorching days in the Sahara desert.

You break me to heal me.  

You have no reason, you have no sanity.

But that is why I need you, even if I don’t want you.

"The world was my oyster, but I used the wrong fork." - Oscar Wilde

Mistakes

tear-stained paper

confusion and obscurity

waste no more time dwelling

on things that will never exist

i’m sorry, sweetheart

i’m sorry it has to be like this.

remember the time when it was all just a myth?

i was never scared i couldn’t make you proud

i was stuck in a cobweb of innocence,

strong, carefree, and fearless

running to someone, rather than away

laughing with a friend, rather than at

loving everything, rather than nothing.

the world was lit in shining lights

i was only waiting to reach them

stretching out my tiny, soft hand

yearning to see the (dark) fantasies i had conjured up

but the light that once lured me

to believe is now gone,

replaced by an inevitable disease

and hope is a four letter word that’s

never ever there to sew together the

p a i n.

because curiosity made me bleed.

now i know

that it will be the death of me.