Advent Musings #3/5 -- Joy Joy to the worldThat's how that song goesRight? Yet where's this JoySo desperately neededTonight? With news of warFilling our daysHapless With news of griefTurning our thoughtsHopeless With news of lossPlundering our heartsRelentless Joy to the worldThat's what we desperately needToday Joy to the worldA baby bornYesterday Two thousand odd YearsAgo … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #163
Advent Musings #2/5 -- Peace Hope and PeaceLike falling leavesDrifting down while one season to anotherShifts Joy and LoveFrom around and aboveAre disappearing like last year's Christmas Gifts This year can we bring backHope and PeaceJoy and LoveTo flood our heartsAnew? This year can we see moreKindness and graceBeauty and cheerFrom start to end Through? … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #162
Advent Musings #1/5 -- Hope They say that HopeIs all but goneAnd in many waysIt's true Each time we open A browser tab for newsLess the exception More the rule We'll find nothing butConflicts and chaos Carnage and calamitiesThere seems little we can do For all around usThe color of this rock Earth isRusty, bloody … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #161
Cloud Atlas Lives across time and spaceLives connected. Intricately tracedWho knew the vastness of souls unitedFor a common cause not easily blighted. It felt like so many cumulous cloudsAll clustered, cloistered. What's it all about?But like a freefall or a float down the riverI let the timelines carry me unstopping unhindered To new worlds hitherto … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #160
I Wanted To Reach You My Way You have no idea how manyways I've been told I'm not good enoughAll through my years of growing upI had to fulfill what society wantsMe to be BiggerStrongerTallerFasterSmarterGrittierSuperior That's the easy part. Harder were the insidious waysSociety wants me to Sing the same songSay the same wordsWrite the … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #159
Shut My Mind SleepIt's what I needYet I can't shut my mindIts endless chattering Leaves me exhaustedTotally wide awakeLike a silly lark in the skySinging incessantlyNever once shutting upOr ceasing to ask WhyWhyWhy Why gift me such an active mind?Why allow these musings to grind and grind?Why can't I sleep well every single night?Thoughts running … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #157
I Want You To Leave I want you to leaveDare I to think it?ThereBefore youTo say itOne day? I want you to leave! I was trying to reach you my wayBy not reaching you your wayI wanted long conversationsLots of green tea and being presentYou wanted none of itOnly to stay and continue your coloring … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #156
These words are mine Sitting aloneIn my dark little roomI wrote and wroteSpinning my humble little loom Of words and linesNo one else's just mineFearing they will live and dieNever seeing the bright blue sky For all my life I've livedBelieving what the world Says about my voiceThat it needs to sound like theirs Who … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #155
Daddy Daddy where's my gift? Daddy Daddy where's my gift?Year after year I'm asking you thisI don't understand why you never buy me anythingDaddy Daddy where's my gift? Daddy Daddy where's my toy?You know Lego figurines bring me endless joyI don't understand why you never ever buy themDaddy Daddy where's my toy? Son Son where's … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #153
P.U.S.H. Til Depression Begone My tongue like paperIncapable of feelingMerely layingNonchalantlyInside. Taking pill after painkilling pillOver the last 48,000 yearsWould do that I supposeTo one's sense ofTaste But it was more than thatOh so much moreWhat I was experiencingThe vacancy The hollownessThat came inside so suddenlyLeaving me a walking coffinEmpty. Cloistered.A trappedClaustrophobe Eyes glazed DisinterestedNothing … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #152
