Scruples of the Devil

By Ayad Gharbawi

"This book is an amalgamation of some of my poems, written over three decades and writen in three continents. They centre around the themes of Man's purposes in life and the questions he has on why he despairs as much as he does? And you say...?"

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Aug 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477221822

Ayad Gharbawi

Ayad Gharbawi graduated from Boston University in 1989 with an MA degree; he has had several books published in a variety of subjects. One of his best selling work is 'Conversations With Hitler And Stalin'. He lives in Surrey, England.

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First published by AuthorHouse 8/7/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4772-2181-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-2182-2 (e)

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Contents

2010 – Damascus, Syria

Circus of Life!

Confessions of a Professional Idiot – [Myself]

Death of a Candle

Distant Wisdom

Don’t Worry If You Should See Me

Essences I Feel

Fugitive From Injustice

Gala Awards For Pedophiles

Give Up Giving

God – Please Give Me Peace?

How Can I Understand That Which Is Undefinable?

How Come No One Noticed The Killers of Jesus?

Howls of an Insane Woman

Humans Are Hurtful Crumbs

I Know I’m Killing Myself

Lady of the Secluded Ponds

Letter Found on Dead Woman

Life’s Concrete Knowledge

My Baby Boy, Pidi

My Beloved Son

My Exit That I Couldn’t Find

Rejoice!

Sad Woman

Savage Is Life

So Near, Yet So Far

Sudden Suicide

Talking to a Suicidal Woman

The Advice of a Sage Woman

The Anonymous Letter Signed ‘Sarah’

The Barren Skulls

The Empty Human

The Final Poem Man Will Write

The Great Pretender!

The Inhuman Journey

The Paranoid Logician

The Sprit Shall Live

The Tyrant’s Final Speech

Unknown Soldier

Vile ‘Human’

We Are All Prisonors in This Life

What Difference Does It Make?

2010 – Damascus, Syria

Location: Desert Shore, Bitterly Cold Night, next to strong waves from the ocean.

Characters: Man ((M) and his Lover, a Woman (W).

W: Search as I forever do, in manifold ways unknown, I seek but to love thee, and the meagre goodness from Life, with steely ardour - my armour faithful.

M: Alone I may be, and still, yes I love thee; these days heavy are and beset I am by burdensome trivialities, but I remain trusting, though my corner so narrow remain.

W: My Love! Your speech I hear aloud and thine lips I live within and yet, my Love, all Solitude I am. Man! I am unaided! In this journey of sinful thorns, my love, in this unforgiving journey, this blurred odyssey, I stand alone.

M: This trial you speak of, but I do know of it well; so, listen then: within the strength of trusted togetherness we can plough on, though everlasting harm shall do its spiteful tricks, warm to our united truth shall we remain.

W: (Surprised) O! My love! This thought I cannot hear! My life, my destiny, is but mine. And all have their own solitary roads of jagged rocks to embrace, like it we or not. We heartbreaking earthly sad beasts, either fiercely clutch at integrity, or we do let it go to perish away.

M: (Confused) My Love! I do hear, I do hear. But when Times decide on burdening us, what then can we achieve? To face Reality within the frail arms of solitude is to ignore, to refuse the severe threats of repulsive grins.

(Silence)

M: (Passionately) O! My sweet! Only in us, can we envelope, through joined, clasped warmth can we be as one united! The screams that so truly are meant to slice us off, only we, our Unity, can destroy. For mine eyes can only find sleep in your ears, and it is so - for otherwise nothing and no one can be.

W: (Angry) "My Passion too is bubbling for thine bewildered ears. Am I not your soul? Do we not suffer as one? Do we not reflect as one? Am I not your lover