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Scary Monsters

Luminescent shadows follow me around, but vanish as I ask who’s there?
Scary monsters and super creeps wait on every corner; a voice whispers beware
I start running I’m trying to gather pace; I’m running faster and faster but I hardly move
The faster I run the slower the cadence becomes; asks the whisper what do you have to prove?

Am I running from monsters past or ghosts hiding in the future?
I turn my head frantically to listen; the whisper is faint in the viscous ether
My pillow absorbs my drenching sweat, my legs kick and run, no stable ground
Frightened heartbeats, timid murmurs beg for reprieve, no more whisper, I can’t hear the gentle sound

Images changing proportions, gravitation bending scary faces
Electromagnetic transformations, shadows form a gigantic ghost
No awakening, remain in your abyss, where is the whisper I need most
My consciousness is chained by subconscious spectres; confront the phantom, the chains do not break
Oh gentle whisper cut me loose, help me to these images forsake

Collisions, particles bombarding subliminal pores, expose my soul to ricochets of guilt, conflict, pain
Prescribed orbits, predetermined order or tangents of love and desire
What to do, whisper to me, I am become insane

I spiral down into depths unknown to conscious science
More scary monsters, more super creeps, more shadows changing hue
Awake from this abysmal torture, send a whisper, bring me back to you
Sticky ghouls and distant memories collide with alpha particles and gamma rays
Chromatic aberrations confuse my vision and distort awaiting silhouettes
I too collide, I too am distorted as I enter the chasm where the mind forgets

Subatomic beings coagulate as memories; juries of demons saturate gaseous mixtures
Bubbles and froth and osmotic spirits, hallucinations from black and white pictures
Parallel curves and helical lines bend and warp my mind, I cry I scream I want I need, break free!
No space no time no light no sound no love; guilty condemnation, empty reality

The central singularity beckons, no return from unconscious waste
Anonymous fields bind me, commanding struggle to abate
Dimensionless objects, cold physics, primordial fear; Nightmare, no reprieve, take me to my fate.

Copyright © Junaid Khan | Year Posted 2014



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Buzz Off

If I were a bee
With only one bite
I’d consider very carefully
Your most suitable site

Should I go round
Should I go flat
Or perhaps should I go for
What I’m looking straight at

Contrary to what
You may feel about me
My sting is in fact
A gratuity

It’s not out of malice
Or anger or hate
But a small memento
Of my psychological state

Depending of course
On the part that I choose
Will determine the passion
With which I infuse

So don’t be afraid
So don’t run away
As nature proclaims
I have to obey

Injecting my venom
In your delectable part
Is merely a cue
For me to depart

And when I am gone
And you tend to your sore
Remember my buzz
Which before you’d ignore

You see that’s all I can really do
For everything else, I haven’t a clue

A sting or a buzz, if only you knew
It’s not about me, it’s all about you.

Copyright © Junaid Khan | Year Posted 2014

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Puff and the Soup Dragon

Dear Puff the Magic Dragon
It’s been so long a while
I heard your friend has left you
And that you no longer smile

Soup is that really you?
Yes, it’s been for ages
How come you’ve just remembered me?
How come these belated pages?

Oh Puff don’t be so bitter
You know that long ago
You chose your dear friend Jackie
And to me you whispered go

Jackie is my friend no more
But tell me all about you
You’re famous for Green Soup
And String Pudding made of Blue

Yes I pass the time away
But sometimes feel incomplete
Baby Soup and I have made a life
And we try to make ends meet

So what about your Mr Soup
A luckier dragon could never have been
With you and Baby Soup around
He must be happy with this scene

Oh Puff you foolish dragon
Don’t you really have a clue?
There has never been a Mr Soup
I only lived for you




How is Baby Soup
Does he have a gigantic tail?
Does he shout and roar out his name?
Does he have green scale?

He’s fun in a magical way
And prone to being carefree
He frolics in the Lunar Mist
By the Sea of Tranquillity

Why don’t you and Baby Soup
Take the next space ship
Come and visit Honah Lee
It will be a worthwhile trip

Puff I can’t just up and leave
For I’m contracted again
Another series of the Clangers
Will force me to remain

But I haven’t seen you in so long
And Jackie Paper comes no more
And I am now all alone
And I’ve ceased my fearless roar

Oh Puff you silly Dragon
You can still roar out your name
Why don’t you come fly out here
And your Magic you can reclaim

Okay, it doesn’t sound too bad
A planetary trip is good
Do you really want to see me Soup?
Do you really think we could?

Oh Puff the Magic Dragon
Who lived by the sea
What became of the dragons Puff
We used to be?

Copyright © Junaid Khan | Year Posted 2014

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Ode To Blah

Blah
Blah
Blah

I’m sorry, what did you say?

Blah di Blah
Blah di Blah
Blah di Blah

Whatever

Blah di Blah di Blah
Blah di Blah di Blah
Blah di Blah di Blah

This is complete nonsense
Have you no conscience?
This means nothing
You’re just bluffing
Call this art?
You should tear it apart
It has no feeling
Most unappealing
Put it to scrap
This load of crap
Sod off

Blah, Blah, Blah
Hah, Hah, Hah!

Copyright © Junaid Khan | Year Posted 2014


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