CHANGE

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CHANGE
By Leon Enriquez


Change comes around
In a pin-prick poke
Sharp as a hard yoke
Not much of a joke
Off-balance, aground


A shaft of light
In a piercing way
Broken in free play
In a dying slay
As distraught feel fights

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An abrupt flight
As heavy chains goad
Mind in overload
Blown tyres on the road
As deep dark blots sight


A future bleak
With stubborn ego
Uncertain and slow
Yet grinds blow for blow
In grim mindset weak

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Vain is the cast
Of I, myself, me
In lost tragedy
Of strange irony
Spot-on first to last


Resolve that fear
Discord with sharp change
Bitter gall tastes strange
Witness to odd range
Devoid of good cheer

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Thus in my soul
My heavy heart strains
My mind thinks in vain
My body sustains
A broken touch whole


Where is the source
Of my urgent feel
Sad uncharted spill
Lost cause beyond thrill
Change breaks upon cause

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Unease feeds plain
Concern hosts lost wit
Nothing in truth fits
Fragments in odd bits
Tying loose tact vain


Is there a light?
To show me just how
Change can thus endow
Poise right here and now
In my dismal plight

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Perhaps love can
Re-route the mess
Conquer strain and stress
My deep fear address
Glitch of a lost man


So here I wait
Not too late by me
To wait on plenty
That dream most surely
By the gates of fate

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Wait for the muse
To sprinkle deep touch
Strange music as such
To prevail as much
Taut nerves that amuse


Odd yet not strange
To arouse crisp sense
Beyond mere pretence 
As feel fronts intense
That dangling loose change

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Here abides truth
In a fine array
Unconcealed dismay
As aplomb portrays
A hidden sure proof


Now I know change
Abrupt and aghast
Neither first nor last
But swirling that blast
Too real to be strange

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Leon Enriquez
06 January 2024
Singapore

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