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what do i have to say
to keep the zebra stripes
from falling off and leaving only white?

what do i have to do
to keep the herd of restless rhino
from stampeding you?

what do i have to be
to get the giraffe to come and eat
from our acacia tree?

peace is less than me
and more than you
but we are almost free
How long is forever
I asked the young child next to me
Oh, forever is a long time
At least till the end of next week

How long is forever
I asked the young man running down the street
Over his shoulder he said he had no time to talk
He had a deadline he had to meet

How long is forever
I asked the old man as he leaned on his crutch
Forever he said my friend
Forever is never long enough

Guess I'll wonder about forever, forever
As it seems to always change with time
Whether young or old or middle of the road
Forever will be forever a state of mind
 Jul 2013 Jay Wasnothing
Ting-Jun
I don't know what to tell you
except,
I love you,
and I always will
 Jul 2013 Jay Wasnothing
Ting-Jun
Lies will not soothe
a healing or broken mind.
Not now, not ever.
 Jul 2013 Jay Wasnothing
Ting-Jun
Exploring the mountainous terrains
and open fields
you stumble across an empty cave
it goes deep, and inside
is something so wondrous
but even the greatest explorer
has yet to lay eyes upon it

You whisper
quiet promises of exploration,
the slight echoes replying
each movement of your
caressing tongue,
leaving the earth
trembling in anticipation

Inside the cave
something is stirring
but it knows than better
than the earth, which it lives with,
sweet words and gentle treading
mean nothing if the
intention
is all wrong
 Jul 2013 Jay Wasnothing
Ting-Jun
I'm not perfect.
There's a cry for help
that only the city lights hear -
barely flickering in response.
I go deeper in

the labyrinth I've built for myself.
I manage to get lost and
find comfort and pain
(at least I can feel pain),
in knowing no one can find me.
But even that does not last long

when hating yourself
is the only thing you know of.

When will the knife slip,
when will your feet trip -

into myself,
into my freedom?

Whose freedom
are we fighting for,
if we don't even know
who we are?
When will the day come, when I'm free of my demons and out of this labyrinth with it's deceptive mirages?
 Jul 2013 Jay Wasnothing
Ting-Jun
When I changed for you,
I also changed my beliefs.
I forgot about pragmatism
and went for idealism
and fell head first for you,
with the most foolish thought
that someone like you,
could love someone like me.
Especially when I had yet to
find love for myself.

Faithfully following you,
without any concept
of what love and
devotion really was,
I lost myself in a religion
that never existed -
except in you and me.
All the new flowers have gone.
I see flocks of birds flying away,
The waters, tear blue mountains,
Fall, rush and scold, are running
Cold— wind, whispers and goes,
Lonely as a tree without leaves.
i lost yesterday

and there's no way to get it back

i let it slip out of my hands

before i even had a chance

to learn from my past mistakes

that i could have corrected yesterday

now it's to late to have my say when

i lost yesterday
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