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You'll even miss your nightmares
    when they're gone. We exist on
    waves of time and build lives
    of small habits to hold our days
    together safe and sound. Change
    to routine is scary as hell and
    most unwelcome. I'll scurry like
    a mouse to your darkness. Trust
    you long enough to spend it all
    talking in a circle once again.
    We'll ride the wave again and
    wipe out over and over until
    the nightmare finally stops in
   a stone cold dead stillness.
drab low hanging clouds
encircle our township to-day
with their raining drear
from tight bud jackets
camellia blooms bursted out
to show red petals
 Aug 2021 Randolph L Wilson
Chloe
It rains now
As you rest your head on me
बादल गरजे बिजली चमके
सावन बरसे सब कुछ सरसे
मयूरा नाचे पपीहरा बोले
पीहू पीहू की ध्वनि गूंजे
      घुंघट पार साजन ही सूझे

हरियाली ने सेज बिछाई
तितलियां रंग भरने को आई
देख देख कर मैं शर्माई
सखियां करें सवाल अनूठे
‌        जवाब इनका एक न सूझे

साजन लगे सरोवर सा प्यारा
मेरी आंखें चंचल लहरें
रह - रह कर साहिल पर ठहरें
यह प्यार की पहेली कैसे सुलझे
       साजन मेरे सीमा पर उलझे।।
And then
the night
comes flooding
in, like
a spilled beer.

Fear is a
rabid bat;
fatally
infecting.

Loneliness is
an ice cube
in a bathtub
melt-
ing
slow-
ly.

Love is a
flat toad in
the road of
life.

Hope is a
broken dish,
an empty
pocket,
a shattered dream.

Life is a sparrow
in the cat's mouth,
an abscessed
tooth, with no
antibiotic.
It's a whale
in a frozen
ocean;
an eagle in the
city.

Insanity is
digging for the
courage to
continue
day after
day
after day.
 Aug 2021 Randolph L Wilson
Mr E
He sought revenge
On all those who wronged him
So he dug a grave for his enemies
And one for himself
For he had nothing left to lose
 Aug 2021 Randolph L Wilson
nivek
some things done when alone are fine
but some things should never be done.

'doing' over 'being' is not for everyone
'being' over 'doing' is not for everyone.

balance is discovered through practise
practise is observed in the balanced.
silent lightning
dead cat lying opened mouth
to the pouring rain.

covered with my coat
sat to mourn the lonely cat
night broke into dawn
6/8/2021
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