Monday, January 30, 2012

Saintly words at the Devil's hour

[Thoughts that saunter in at 3am, penned (with shamelessly ripped off words from 'Home' by Daughtry)...]


If life and time allowed for but once
To go back to revisit, that which is done,
To step back in sepia-toned memories,
To re-witness the good, the bad and the mundane all over again,
What would I do?

Into the faithful world of what ‘was’ from the insecure clutches of what ‘is’,
If only could I transcend,
Would I be as belligerent, as convinced, as univocal as now?
Or is it a question of being careful of what I wish for,
In case I just might get it all,
And then some I don’t want.

If only Physics allowed, I would venture into antiquity,
Slip into comatose, an island full of compartmented people,
People, each in their assigned walled rooms,
Faithfully one-dimensional, yet completely my own to keep,
More me than who they themselves be.

Or is it unripe, still, to populate it with people,
For leagues and leagues wait to be befriended,
And yet many more to be antagonized.
How to tell when it is just enough?
How to tell the rolling stone when not to roll and gather no moss anymore,
For the wanderlusts, the itinerants, are never men of content.

Having toyed about a while with the fantastic thought,
A thought in vain, a thought worth naught,
I think I’d rather do without this skeletal limbo,
Of unspoken lies, of undone deeds,
of half-dead dreams, of untouched realms,
Of half-cooked relationships, of fractured pleasantries,
Of capitalized ramblings, but unengaged action.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Hopelessness of Imminence

[NOTE: Completely impromptu, result of a 5-minute experiment. Please comment on ideas contained herein, and not on rhyme scheme and figures of speech and other flowery terms adamant on divorcing poetry from truthfulness.]


Sometimes somethings, like snowcaps in a frozen time,
Inertia-stricken; by change, are never plagued.
Why then do others, change at will,
Why, like portraits never unfinished or finished,
With brush strokes wild and dabs of creativity,
Get washed off and go, never to return.

Like leaves in autumn, shriveled, haggard and gangly,
Frail and hinging, auburn and yellow,
Taken in the stride of the daunting wind,
To fly, fly and soar, away from home,
Away from innocence, from what was once one’s own.

The damning waves approach and come and never fucking go,
Annihilate, ravage, level, plunder and corrode,
Like dreams caught up in an unannounced quicksand,
The sand castle of men made sometime somewhere.

The charming adolescence of thought and reveries,
And beautiful, unassuming, unpretentious words of heart.
Matriculate into malevolence, blind faith and vanity.

Oh world, big world, thou art too mighty,
Keep to yourself your corruption, your gangrenous articulations.

Let me grow old and die without the imposed albatross around my neck.