Best Friend’s Girl
“She’s finally mine!”
That was what He said to me,
Each word measured like a line
I heard it all but did not see
What those three words would do
And what my heart was saying
About the lines I heard from you
Because my heart was collapsing
Into the sea of darkness oblivion
Every word said she I took hint
To others thus a mind kept in seclusion
His every word a sword thrust with a glint
My heart is dead!
Only one line has been said.
Erwin Nah
Sadness
Real sadness I’ve suddenly known
On my cheerful face it has suddenly shown.
Confusion has ravaged my brain
Friendship has befuddled my heart
Under pressure I’d rather be slain,
Not deciding whether to part.
Stop all the clocks,
Cancel all the flights,
I have encountered a stumbling block,
My untimely plight.
All of it my own doing,
Oh God, please save me,
What have I been saying!
Oh Lord, decide my future for me!
Please save this creature you see!
Grant me my humble plea!
Erwin Nah
Don’t be Sad
Don’t be sad, dear friend
Don’t ever think this is the end
Your problems will soon be solved
Relief comes after
Happiness makes it all better
And emotions will be evolved.
I cannot try to make it easier
My meddling would only make you busier.
So as to give you encouragement now,
This poem’s all I’ll leave you with a bow.
Erwin Nah
My Love’s Ten Favorite Things
My family is dearest to me,
On this list Erwin is the second I’ll see
Next would be Danon for sure,
Being third, he keeps me posted through the year
Following that my favourite friends,
Sheena an embodiment of cheerful wonder,
Hesang who will endlessly ponder,
They’ll stand by me no matter what Life sends.
Trinkets and toys, my every penciled thought,
Books, Jewellery, presents They have bought,
Into my memory box they will remain hidden,
Or until the World ends with a sudden.
Within my treasured photographs,
Those still, silent frames of everlasting past,
Some always bring me a teary-eyed laugh.
And finally it would be Home as last.
Erwin Nah (8th April 2002)
He Loves
He loved her everything
He adored her loveliness
She liked his special something
She accepted his tenderness
He held on to her too much
She did not like him doing such,
That she was suffocated by his love
Being carefree she wanted to fly like a dove
Mimicking that bird he adored her to be
She sought to escape, never to see,
His teary eyes when he watches her leave
Leaving him with only time to grieve.
Erwin Nah
Wrath
When I am satisfied with this life,
I feel like I want to be sad,
Give me a reason to get mad.
Without the need to be nice to you
Don’t worry! I won’t scream or shout
Blue would be my anger’s hue
I will just imply that you’re a lout.
Sarcasm gets my message across
Anger never on my face emboss
Coldness for you you’ll definitely feel
And this, my wrath you’ll have to deal.
Erwin Nah
My Friend Ho!
“Gerald, Gerald,
Fat and round,
Throw him in the sea
And watch him drown!”
Thus they made fun of Gerald
Day by day teasing him his shape
Always saying he’ll fail his oral.
Gerald never faltered, his hope a cape
Never giving up once,
His hope for a friend
Believed in God, and gained a lance
He’s now a hero, his job cannot end
He saves souls everyday
He cannot remember what they used to say.
Erwin Nah
Innocently Hated
“He’s always surrounded.”
That’s what they say,
Girls, he’s reminded, come what may,
Are his satellite stars,
Or rings of Saturn
They want a cage with bars,
To keep him in where they’ll burn,
His pretty face and honeyed tongue
Complimenting the girls they adore
It seems a swansong wanting to be sung
Their jealousy brought to the fore,
They happily hate and will wait
To see presented before their eyes
Which girl he’ll date and bait
At which point they’ll make sure he cries.
Erwin Nah
Long Time, Missed You
Haven’t seen you in a long time,
Finally found you today
Been thinking of you each year
I doubt you ever did hear,
My heart’s collapse when you did not stay,
It’s never-ending calling rhyme
“Where are you,
How are you today?
Did you look my way?
I cannot find you!”
And so continues its blaring,
Of a silent loneliness so blasting,
That it deafens out all thought,
Within my soul futile refuge I sought
Till that fateful evening my path astray,
I finally found you today.
Erwin Nah (19th April 2002)
House Romanis
Saints we are,
One and all,
Heaven is far,
For both great and small
Together we strive
In order to survive
To gain God’s favour
Through our spiritual labour
Heaven is far,
Though Saints we are,
Here in this place,
Within our school we face
The task of leading the Saints
At which the weaker heart faints
But House Romanis persists,
Where others resist,
The call to fight for God,
To take a chance and follow our Lord!
Erwin Nah (19th April 2002)
Damned
Catch the stars
Raze the moon
Pillage Mars
Better do them soon.
I cannot bear the twilight
Oh you pretty round thing so bright.
Looking up at our night sky so wide,
No woes intrude upon our existence
Our self-imposed significance
In God’s holiness, we cannot pride
Ourselves for our achievements
Or our charitable endeavours undertaken
We are like war battlements
Made for one purpose then forsaken
That is, unless, if we,
Fall in love with thee,
Our Lord, God, Jesus Christ
Jude, Saviour, Sacrifice.
Erwin Nah
Inside
Why is the question lingering on my mind,
Why I was born into a miserable life
Why I’m so lost in my world so blind,
Why can’t I get away from eventual strife
Why do I feel sadness most of the day
Why I was led to this composing
Why I hope my fears in you allay
Why my cynical pondering of life wandering
Why do we just live our lives,
Why do we merely exist and everybody strives
Why are we born to our heart on a knife
In God’s masterplan for our sinful life.
Erwin Nah (19th April 2002)
For Heart’s Safety
Help me someone
I need love
I’ll leave once I’m done
Sapping love from you
Take you for a drive
Round the curve
Lead you on, that’s what I’ll do
Raise the glass window of wondrous beauty
Let it dip, then dive
The silent crashing of your heart
I’ll keep us safe from ourselves apart.
Erwin Nah
No More Cry
Come to terms
Pick up the pieces strewn
My broken shards of self-ruin
Carnage of my carcass burns
Across the killing fields
Each argument hung at the gallows
Burned over water, the black heart yields
My broken heart is on my own hands
Against the advice of my sincere fellows
I made the sacrifice to ensure her sorrow ends,
Before our hearts bled to death
Hers from my atrocities committed
That I, from my infected hands, always left
Mine from the heartbreak I had cause permitted
Myself to unwittingly succumb
To my nature, the Catalyst
I built her dreams up, brought change and this
Hearts aches, breaks, bleeds and finally became numb.
Erwin Nah (21st April 2002)
The Rugby Player
They keep telling him,
“You like her.”
He tried stirring feelings within
But his heart knew he liked another
Not wanting to believe the truth,
He forced and let it be
Till he decided to let his heart soothe
Allowed himself to finally see,
That the other girl was who he needed,
To ease the pain
And to enjoy days of rain
“You always wanted her.”
His heart kept telling him.
Erwin Nah
Rose Nostalgia
Bloom O flower
Blossom and grow
Spread those petals
Say hello from below
Like a relationship you grow fonder
Within each other your heart settles
Till that fateful dying day
As your petals shrink sadly
As your leaves start to sway,
Change to a red, blue and gray medley
To wrinkle up so tenderly
Leaving only a hollow shell of memory.
Erwin Nah (22nd April 2002)
Romeo’s Fall
She wants it to end,
To quit as his godsend
To hastily leave his troubling side
To run free and not to hide
Shun from his Darkness
His unholy Light
The maelstrom of Jealousy she has to fight
Love scorned; now resides Recklessness
Hate borne of remembered misgiving
What did she do to deserve this cold dying
Of the love they once shared?
Now a complete avoidance ensnared
He became a distant memory
She had to dismember this infected attachment
And become lonely territory
Gain new strength, build up the battlement
And thus prepare to close up deep thoughts
Next her heart to sell his castaway lots
Begin again, Wary heart
Relinquish Juliet, her wear part
Not expecting the on-coming scene
He burst through and onto the Epilogue
Riding through, his armor a hopeful sheen
But alas! It was not to be so
She believed him now to still be a Rogue
Closed up, cordoned off, she withstood life’s new blow,
Enveloped in, encompassed within,
New feelings developed for another begin
She does not want to hurt her first dear him,
Only that their light is so dim.
Erwin Nah (22nd April 2002)
Aptitude
He’s apt at making people smile
Especially successful with the opposite sex
This he does without attempt to beguile
Only he tries to help rest and relax
Do not hate him for what he is
Unless you know for sure that he’s a jerk
He believes that he lives to please
Women, his shield, their anger would perk
Thereby which your popularity dips,
And next labeled a masculine bitch,
Girls really can place you in a deep ditch,
So, ensure the scales in your favour tips.
Erwin Nah
