We are buffeted by the brutality of constant demands
That erode the inner steel we put up
To block out the absurdity of life.
Always looking forward, to what?
To time ticking down
As we move inexorably to unity in our everlasting darkness of nothing
The stupidity will hit us one day
A tsunami of regret
Why did I keep the madness at bay
instead of embracing it and taking it out to dance.
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 2020 at 6:32 AM UTC
We wake to our monochrome future
A way of life dictated top down
From a power that thinks it knows best
To tell us want to think, what to do.
Be comformist, compliant, collective.
Or else.
So History’s mistake repeats itself
When will the lesson be learned?
True power lies in being powerless
It pinpricks the tarpaulin that suffocates opinion.
An irrepressible vibrant culture of individualism
seeps colour up through the drains to the city’s beige surface.
It is irresistible for it is who we are.
We swim in the ocean of thought it releases
Our souls lie between the ocean and the darkness of the night sky
There, we are untouchable
There, victory lies.
Jul 1, 2020
Jul 1, 2020 at 9:51 AM UTC
We constantly fear
our being here
means nothing.
That life,
our constant strife
brings no objective.
That our heart
at birth just starts
because of evolution.
We dread the thought
that we are nought
but atomised vacuity.
Yet in this deep doubt
is an instinct so stout
it tells us we exist
for a purpose.
And that instinct
we cannot ignore.
Jun 14, 2020
Jun 14, 2020 at 9:09 AM UTC
This city is lost in the wilderness
Our Trappist souls to discover
Our billowing needs stripped down to less
A chance inwardly to recover.
Let us not lay waste this time to reflect
Let the sigh of the wind lift our thoughts
Let snippets of kindness expand and collect
Let us love, for our time here is short.
May 3, 2020
May 3, 2020 at 9:17 AM UTC
You tap your watch in those holes of time
The glint in your eye taunting,
‘Oh Life, so brutally rationed.
Such a shame. Tick tock!’
Sands pour down an unforgiving hush.
You beast.
How I yearn to escape you.
How your coiled fingers tighten their grasp
As you throw back your head
And cackle at the futility
Of my struggle.
For I am you
And we are one
Forever my worst enemy.
May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 3:21 AM UTC
We wake.
We worry
what the day will bring
If a second coffee is too much a thing
If the milk is off, if the washing is done
Can we do the ironing before the clock strikes one?
Will the dust that lurks in those little nooks
Under lampshades lips and on top shelve books
Accumulate to cause our death rattle cough
So we’re undiscovered ‘til the stench turns rough?
Has the dog been walked, has the cat been fed?
Has he tidied his room and made his bed?
Can I afford this and that? Have I remembered to shave?
Will I retire with no savings to misbehave?
Was the work I did yesterday correct?
Will it cause huge problems to resurrect?
And lead many fingers to point at me
Will I be sacked for everyone to see?
Is my income sufficient, have I over spent?
Will I have enough to pay my rent?
Do I rail at colleagues and think they conspire
To burn my career on a funeral pyre
At night when my mind should be shut down
These thoughts of woe go round and round
Petty nonsense obsessions are my default
I wish I could stop them, tell them to halt
But the human condition is like this
A constant search for tranquil bliss
Beyond our reach, an impossible mission
For stress and sorrow are the human condition.
Apr 11, 2020
Apr 11, 2020 at 6:53 PM UTC
War forged your reputation
Inspiring language convinced your nation:
Never, never, never
Surrender.
To give blood toil tears and sweat,
Our duty this day to be done for
No victory was more important than this.
Civilisation’s saviour are you
Heralding the truth when none believed
Until it was too late, most thought.
Redoubt sprang forth from your words
Courageous transcending oratory
Hope sublime in hopeless times
Inciting minds beyond logic
Lives were lost in sacrifice for
Lives saved in ensuing generations.
We shall never forget
Mar 21, 2020
Mar 21, 2020 at 11:12 AM UTC
Dive high! Dive low!
Throwing off powdered eggshell fragments as you go
flying through the air, your smile
so broad, that cackling chuckle, your smoothing style.
You sparkle above the brilliant blue
then dip once more to start your darting turn anew.
So cute!
So smart!
Playfulness fills the heart
Brim full with a cheerful lightness
You arc like a swallow and swoon into the brightness
of your glittering foil ocean
pure happiness your motion
Nature’s gift
You uplift
A cure
So pure
Youth and age as one unite
Watching you all day and night
As you bring a joy so right
so natural, so pink and so true…….
Goodbye, my friends, we’ll miss
you.
Feb 29, 2020
Feb 29, 2020 at 4:25 AM UTC
Corona Corona Coronavirus
Why is it that you despise us?
So much so that you do cause
All of us to stay indoors
Romance is hard enough a task
To do without wearing face masks
You’ve taken from us that sheer bliss
Of leaning in and stealing a kiss.
You were pretty dire as a beer
Weak as water, insincere
One sip left you wishing, “please no more!”
And what the hell was that lemon for?
This “work from home thing” is not all that
Have you seen the size of Hong Kong flats!
Sure they may be expensive as hell,
But they’re not much bigger than prison cells.
Now supermarkets are anarchy and fear
As people fight the shelves to clear
No toilet paper or liquid soap
Sanitizer (and condoms?), don’t even hope.
You’ve destroyed so many jobs of ours
The economy will bear your scars
For this year and many far beyond
Your after effects felt very long
So time out now, we’ve had enough
It’s time for us to call your bluff
We are sick of fearing when we cough
Please pack your bags and just f—- off!
Feb 9, 2020
Feb 9, 2020 at 2:46 AM UTC
Clowns
abound
around
the town,
wearing crowns,
gowns
and frowns,
as sounds
drown and
pound
up and down
the brown
mound.
Oh the renown
astounds
the nouns
of those clowns.
Feb 5, 2020
Feb 5, 2020 at 10:30 AM UTC