Inspiration...Sadness...and whatever life takes
InnuredThis invidious loneliness
hath lain fallow. It was almost
that she wouldn't want him to trail
her in his ill-fitting boots. Only to lose
him again, to the emollient
of ten minute phonecalls; the
sweet smatterings over
invisible cables.
Once the weekend was over.
He'd have his rifle for
company. While she would cry
over the photographs
of long-lost time; and think
not the fortuity of
his shiny casket, when
saturday comes again.
cuRRent...jer
Negativei ama prick.
a tick.
a droplet.
a tick.
a smear.
a tick.
a thought.
a butterfly.
a tick.
the wait.
a tick.
a(nother) thought.
a future.
a tick.
a heart sinks.
a tick.
a dread.
a possibility
a(nother) thought.
a bleakness.
a tick.
a.
a mind wanders.
a boy paces.
a tick.
a tick.
a tick.
a tick.
a tick.
a tick.
a voice calls.
a tick.
a tick.
a tick.
a test of faith.
cuRRent...jer
subtlethe years sit lightly on subtlety. yet,
these subtitles remain- throttling
air with a concealed grin. and they
to veil their knives in toilet rolls- so
that when they cut, slice, incise-
it rushes beyond the lower part
of our screens-
our lines of visions-
in clumsy chunks of white;
leaving me to wonder; why
we need you: mister subtitles.
cuRRent...jer
Youwill become the pawn of politicians;
are the cutlass of their diplomacy.
will become a servant of utility;
will find- no emancipation.
will become a pariah of peace;
will war in irenic irony.
will lose all reason of subversion;
are worn down by attrition.
will become, no more. because,
will have god in your hands/ (yet)
have no scripture by your side.
will have no will o’er your temple/
have no religion to bridle your finger.
will find your heart of darkness/ (while)
have to suffer the brickbats of your officers-
will have to live up to. or else,
give them power, to cause
excruciating pain.
give them un-reason, to maltreat
and your neighbours.
would have broken the oath
were forced to swear.
cannot help but finally realise:
are in the universe of another palm;
have no choice/ have no soul;
have only the camouflage of existence -
have become a soldier.
cuRRent...jer
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that i have the alphabet
in place.
cuRRent...jer