Two birds I know
Much dear to me
Are afraid to fly together
Often do though
Yet later separate to their nests
With reluctance but for fear
Of hurting and being hurt
Yet in flight
Glory is theirs and unmatched
And though blessed are all voyeurs
I
Long to fly beside
And let my eyes
Reflect what they are blind to
Now everyone’s a philistine
Their laughter, their words, their clothes
Gnaw at my veins
For how could they be for the right reasons
Irrationality screams through every pore
These people blabbering about rocks and dust
Sheer insanity dripping from them
It takes me a while to detest them less
Apathy overcomes anger for a bit
And then I am one of them
But here’s this book I want to read
And this movie I’ll watch tomorrow
If they are good I’ll slip right back
I stand erect and dare the walls
Around and within
To endure the might of my curses
And be subject to the most depraved thoughts
That I harbour
These walls of noble birth
Must and need to crumble soon
I am scraping at the bottom
Of my well of wrath
Blood is not mortar
Bones are not bricks
My biggest fear:
I’ll be entombed within
My success
And yours
Careworn I marched down the street
It was dark and I passed some windows
Where mingling sounds of talk and laughter
Wafted through and fell on my stubborn ears
It all annoyed me and I moved further
Away till my senses relented
Looking for obscure places
And finding obscurity
There I saw a vagrant
Carefree he marched towards me
And everything felt familiar
Including his laughter
Which he let go
On seeing my face
Don’t think hard he said
You’ll recognize me in a few years
In the vicinity of these rocks
That offer resistance to the flowing water
The clear relentless water that makes its way
And laps at my grateful toes
These rocks that are set firmly in the sand
The clean moist sand that breaks
At the slightest of pressure
And then swallows my hand
But not even this water
Or this sand
Or the sunlight that skims the surface
Or the people I call friends
It’s just the rocks
All the rocks and nothing else
The inert ever present rocks
That have my undivided attention
A True Sentence 