Mike Fayad

Los Angeles, California

Mike is a computer engineer by training who loved math and poetry since he was in his teens. He worked at City of Hope for six years as a Sr. Financial Analyst and was included in the "Who is Who in the West" for his contribution in Finance and to the fight against cancer. Mike published his poetry in both English and Arabic and has participated in various poetry festivals. Mike says, "Writing or reading poetry allows us to go the a deeper level of consciousness that transcend individuality and locality to a wider realm of shared existence."

Cheryl

I came across the ocean,
to find that your were my destiny.
I was only searching
for the edge of the rainbow,
when I found your green eyes.
Get closer, for there is only one place
for a rose like you...
Let me hold you in this moment
that starts now but goes to eternity.
Let our ballads travel with the wind
that plays the beautiful symphonies...
For no love story have been told before
or will be told after ours
And when the candles of our lives get used
one after the other.
the sun will be setting in the sea,
and what is left is a memory of me..

For Your Eyes Only

Those eyes that glitter in perfect green
Are the dew on the flower, I have just seen
Those gentle waves of the sea on the earth's face
Are you that flow and my head embrace
This hair in blond that streams like rays
Is the silk with which I weave my days
You are my love and fire
You are my spring of wine and desire
On the turn roads of my life you are the voice of time
That fills me with wonder and inspires my rhyme
A mermaid that's born in the depth of pure water
Aging through, I proudly dive through each layer
Times carves you on my face as wrinkles and lines
Writing my legend in eternal signs
Telling the story of a passing star
Of a hand of sand that lighted far..
So you say my only sun!
My future that my past has done!
And my flute stay singing in loud murmur
And I stay sailing into you, until no more forever...

All poems Copyright © 1997 Mike Fayad. All rights reserved.