Tuesday, 14 July 2015

SCREAMS FROM WONDERWORLD

A tickle in the stomach
Lets out a strange sound
In a foreign tongue
Queer to normality.
A breath-capturing step
In a green green world
An impossibility of an experience
Lands you in a wonder-world.
Your fall was frightening.
Your fall was everlasting.
Now the cold hard ground
Glares down at you furiously.
With trembling limbs,
And cheeks stained with tears
And a throat dry of screaming,
You stand and turn the world around.
Not good enough. Never good enough.
Too big or too small.
How do you fit through that door.
Why must you fit through that door?
It is a door
And you need some air.
Is there air behind that door?
You peek. It is not
What you were looking for.
Clueless fat men, a hyper-active mouse,
You’re late for tea!
What tea?
This was never meant to be.
Yet, here you are…
Here you are.
In that world you dreamed of…
A wonder-world,
Distant from home,
No Oz, just your wits,
Do you really wish to get back home?
Stand tall, my friend.
Time stretches, but it won’t be long.
Another door awaits.

Train your heart to be strong.


14/07/15

Sunday, 12 July 2015

Escapallure

Catterpillars in the night
A creak and a creep by the leaf
Bending and shimmering by the breeze now full
For that striding pompous chief
A trickle of sweat by the brain
A lustful raindrop by the lip
A dried out trace of a tear on the cheek
A steely determined grip.
We trip together and laugh
We slip together by the dew
The stars twinkle and skies light up
Red and orange and bright blue
Tired eyes watch on
The world begins once more
No walls, no ceiling and no marble floor
It’s time…
Push past that broken door.





12/07/15

Thursday, 5 March 2015

Movements of the Shadow Realm

Waiting in the shadows
A young man, a young woman,
A mother, a brother
A child, an elder,
Counting down
Three, two, one!
Stepping out
Marching loud
Two, three, four,
A million follow,
Banners out,
Silent screams:
“Hear me!
Hear me now!”
And it rains
The thunder bursts
And the poison enters the veins,
Tears, blood-shot eyes...
Still they struggle
They stand, they hurt,
The pain, it bleeds,
Bleeds and burns,
And another declaration,
Ushers forth the nation
The vacuum, it sucks,
Leaves no air,
None for the wordless voice,
No air for life...
Once more they wait,
By the shadows they lie,
Some fear and run,
Tied down for life.
Now cowards too wait,
With those who weep
Cry out in pain
Count down again.
Truth, silenced, one-sided,
And bleeding hearts chided:
Three, two, one, move,

Till every word proves true!

06/03/15