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Andrew Kerklaan Dec 2011
Hatred breeds temptation
  
Temptation breeds patience
  
Patience is a virtue... But only the virtuous may pass on
  
Those who pass on must seek redemption
  
The trials of the scorned must pave the path
  
In the eyes of the wicked none are innocent...
  
For this you must pay the homage!
  
These atrocities must be avenged
  
Neither test nor trial this is your life!
  
In this the brutalisation will mark the path
  
There is no forgiveness!!
Andrew Kerklaan Dec 2011
Watching from above, they say It sees it all
  
It sees me from the sky,its hiding in the clouds
  
My eyes may not see It but they say Its all around
  
I don't believe a word of it, they say I'll burn in hell
  
I tell you that It can't exist, isn't it plain to see??
  
You say I must have faith in something to believe
  
Its hiding up amongst the clouds but Its just not real to me...
Andrew Kerklaan Dec 2011
He descends the stairs of the porch on the house sleepily

.....He is calm

Realising his wires are tangled he quickly unbunches them...

The sidewalk clicks by unheard to his ears...

Houses... Dark pictures from which he sees images of people -- Looking out, watching TV, talking...
  
He hears the sound coming from inside his ears but it does not register to him.... He remains deep in thought....

click click click
  
The stones pass by unnoticed

click click

Waiting

The criss-cross patterns on every single lawn...
  
Like an endless sea of unchanged, untouchable conformity he thinks to himself...

Reaching for the small chunk of metal in his pocket to turn up the noise and drown out his thoughts...  
  
What is it?  
  
He questions himself without answers....

With a fear of the unknown but completely unaware of what he should fear...  
  
He thinks quietly...

A building approaches... Bricks that are red like an African sunset... A prison... A place of hatred and sadness...

He stops, there is a man far away calling to him.....  
  
Ignorantly he continues without a second thought.

"****! An endless sea of it...." He speaks underneath his breath  
  
Black leather hangs around him in long sheets... As he walks it sways... This pleases him...

Such a hollow pleasure he thinks bitterly....  
  
What is purpose? is it merely the quest for meaning? or something more...

click click click  
  
......Darkness is now around him and a place to rest is close....

*click click....
One of my very first poems
Andrew Kerklaan Dec 2011
Cat
Can I sit with you?
  
Small Cat...
  
I can see your eyes watching me from the dark
  
Cat...
  
They look green from here
  
Cat...
  
Are you hunting in the dark now?
  
Cat...?
  
If you were would you let me come?
  
*Cat...
Andrew Kerklaan Dec 2011
One...
  
A moment passes me by...
  
Two...
  
Stretching into the shadows...
  
Three...
  
I bury my head into the sand...
  
Four...
  
Emerging to see what has come of me...
  
Five...
  
I am ****** into the light...
  
Six...
  
Surrounded by other beings I am no longer alone...
  
Seven...
  
Their eyes are now upon me...
  
Eight...
  
They bring me to the vessel...
  
Nine...
  
A door somewhere far off is closing...
  
Ten...
  
The blackness is suffocating in space...
  
Eleven...
  
The world I leave behind with closed eyes
  
Twelve*...
  
Swift and sudden pain give way to release as I am taken away...
  
I am alone again...
Andrew Kerklaan Dec 2011
With eyes wide open the world spins lucidly out of control  
  
Moving faster and faster, the Earth is growing...  
  
White blonde hair whipped passed her face would seem so far away  
  
Like a forgotten lover's name it is so surreal...  
  
Ideas of flight abstractly toying with the corners of her mind  
  
Her wings are pressed flat...  
  
A final escape from a dream which you could never wake  
  
This is her ecstasy.  
  
Her final curtain...  
  
Perhaps it would seem odd that her last thoughts would be of her mother  
  
So soft and warm...  
  
They never did agree on anything...  
  
Perhaps in another life they could finally see eye to eye but there would be no such luck this time around...  
  
Her head tossed in a backwards roll  
  
The last ten or fifteen feet seemed to disintegrate away...  
  
A dream's sad ending could never be so uplifting  
  
She opened her eyes for the last time to find her dream had given way to the real  
  
She had been set free  
  
...and had finally embraced the unknown
Andrew Kerklaan Dec 2011
Their eyes to the loose soil
  
Nobody says a word
  
Cries of anguish deep inside
  
But not a whimper is heard
  
Aching for the other half...
  
Left here alone to walk the path...
  
The dirt now packed and the people gone.
  
All are gone except for one
  
A single rose clutched in one hand
  
He kneels down to touch the ground
  
Placing his hand upon the stone...
  
Ever so softly he weeps alone.
  
Amiss without.
  
She was the one, to whom he'd of given his first born son
  
No longer here to lighten the load...
  
Taken from him, to her new abode
  
A prayer on the wind of summer's breath
  
Carried to the heavens, wishing for death...
  
A broken man his hand does shake
  
A rose left which no hand can take
  
Words forgotten never meant so much...
  
As his cheek caressed by a lover's touch
  
I love you never seems enough
  
When it is your heart that has been snuffed...
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