Eat my gratitude and vomit it as blameDrink my care and sweat it as disdainWear my tenderness and discard it as tattered insanityYes, all my good to you will always be vanity IIEat my love and defecate it as hatredUse my advise and project it as overratedWear my support and project it as wickednessAfter all, […]
There was once a gloatWho was nearly found afloatAnd got saved by a gracious boatOnly to grow fit to turn into a goatWho wore only furs in ingratitude coatsAnd added horribly insulting quotesTo the she who only on him do her dotes IIHe knew not the eyes watching…were with the hearts he’d need in helpingShould […]
When music forgets its bedding is poetryAnd clay pots forget they come from the earthWhen wool forgets it comes from treesAnd houses forget they stand on earthWhen characters forget they come from a scriptAnd clouds forget they hang in the airThe sky, the earth, books, trees and scripts…will still be what they’reLadders without which flaunters…could […]
Give me a stone and I will see the glaring message “Heart of mine, trip all you can, I will be here to catch your falls” Give me ordinary sand and I will smile at the sweetness of thought That says “Even if we turn dust, this heart will you belong” Even the stinking end […]
The womb of the earth Births them all Flowers Trees Crops Weeds Herbs II Why would one womb Birth them all with such variations and roles? Do flowers love being flowers? Trees being trees? Crops being crops? Weeds being weeds? Herbs being herbs? III Flowers complain of being used Their beauty for pleasure Their nectar […]
The butterfly envies The flight of birds in higher realms And thinks it will do anything Anything to be higher II What the butterfly does not know Is that there are birds and there are birds There are birds ugly and wild There are birds beautiful and vulnerable There are birds normal but filthy There […]
When the dog barks at its owner In a fierce and ugly manner In a mind that is in order It risks losing its comfy shelter And might sweat in an angry slaughter II Even if it barks in sickness It shows its feared weakness And risks being the red meat Which east and west […]
Make all the ruckus You trees in windy chorus Cutting tool echoes II Every Osama Awaits his own Obama To bring a hammer III You stand held by ground You rustle with hurting sound Tools seek your flesh pound IV When your doom nights fall As the machines make the call Where will your doom […]
All new fascinate Guess who are the cast aways? Of course it’s the old II Like doormats they lie Hurt by steps thinking of past But legs care less. What? III The downer lacks pride When the upper falls, his pride Hurts, he dreams revenge IV Have mercy! Fallen year! Downers fear no fall but […]
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