Awakingness
I cannot stay away
From sunny afternoons,
Passing weather-less days
In suffocating rooms...
There is more company
In the solace of God
Myself beside myself
Caressed by grass unshod...
Unhappy banishment!
Lurid society
An imposition bent
Of stiff variety...
The soul needs affection
From a credible source
Not a mere distraction,
But a redemptive course...
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If Only Then I Knew
When the Lord came for me,
The whole world changed,
I don't think it was me,
Except that I believed...
And we laughed together
The Lord and me,
He took away fatigue
And rocked me to sleep...
No more loneliness
With so much to do,
The world became a playpen
And me, a little child...
It was sometimes in June,
Through He was there all the while,
When I was fighting to belong,
If only then I knew...
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A Clear Fact
There's a language
As old as the world,
Without breath...
Without existence's
Limited awareness...
To translate these audible words
Belonging to the intellect
Of pure reason
One must be gripped
By an acute sensitivity
Departing from the level
Of understanding...
Wisdom has no decision to make
Entering one's constitution
Not as a guest sojourning,
But as part of an indivisible
Consciousness...
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A Love's Comparison
Oh, let it rot!
Who's going to want it now,
In that condition?
It was once a delicacy
But look- it's spoiled!
We should get rid of it
As soon as possible
Throw it away
Far, far away
Bury it if you can...
The traces will no linger
More than a few days or hours...
We will replace it easily
At the super-market...
Each season
Brings a new variety
Freshly harvested crops
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What Can I Say?
What is now?
What brings today this day
That makes yesterday past
And sorrows gone away?
Tomorrow but a day
In the future-maybe
It will come
To you the same as me...
The air of other life
Beckons me to follow
It pushes -like the wind
From behind...
I and my faculties
Contemplate ideas
Of challenging the mind
Further on...
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Wake Up Call
Volumes of emotion
Suppressed inside each thought
With stubborn penetration
Membranes of consciousness
Break free the captivity
Of dependency
And become self entity...
Like stolen articles
These elements of mind
Kept inside are skeptical
Of rightful ownership
And knowing the persuasion
Of selfless division
Give back composition...
It does not matter
At what level of emotions
It may be caught
Everything will be captured
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Mind and Emotion
Volumes of emotion
Suppressed inside each thought
With stubborn penetration...
Membranes of consciousness
Break the captivity
Of dependency
And become self-entity...
Like stolen articles,
These elements of mind
Kept inside are skeptical
Of rightful ownership
And knowing the persuasion
Of selfless division,
Give back composition...
Plucked at the peak of sadness,
Emotion's flavor
Is captured in essence...
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Searching For You
I searched for you everywhere
No knowing where you really were
I went as far as another constellation
And in my failure to find you
I grew in indignation
My life is now painful and in review
Unaware you were hiding
Behind the moon's shadow
Residing in a place cold and hollow...
Sarcastically you were smiling at me
Without you, now I know what I can be...
O! Lord! What an irony!
The living proof of an agony!
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Transparency
Giggling sheets of transparency
Sliding down airs of marble guesses
Greeting the well beneath with chimes of
Liquid laughs and candy caresses...
All the water moves in mirrored waves
Like the prayer of a congregation
With the wind as guide it drifts along
Wet whispers of pious persuasion...
Through this crystal cleared mirror
I can see vividly your angelical face
While I am here feeling like a hero
For delineating the distance and space....
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Unwinding My Thoughts
Setting down with paper and a pen,
Carefully unwinding my thoughts,
Faintly hearing myself think-I listen
And find the tape is somehow caught...
I press play, fast forward, rewind, eject,
Pause- elementary techniques
Attempted before tossing the subject,
Unraveling the mind's mystique...
Disappointed, I change the recording
To another I have memorized
Completely, effortlessly affording
Me a ballad by memory catalyzed...
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