Creative Life

patience 
to wait
courage 
to encounter 
the unexpected 
are two lessons in life 
that I learnt 
the hardest way

also I learnt 
crafting
heroic perseverance 
into dire life experience  
from my father 

also I learnt 
to work hard 
through 
the vast and last 
final way of fate 
from my mother
 
also I learnt 
from my people
creativity 
diligence 
personal integrity
redemptive power
of wisdom, oguma—
time was, time never is!
they say 
 
father and mother
they generate LIFE 
your culture
generates MEANING 

that life 
is
a ritualized 
creation 
of every day  

reenacted through 
countless mornings 
days, evenings, and nights 
that we are only aware of 
the increasing value of time
in life 
as it comes to pass 
too soon
in a form of 
ill health 
bondage
age
exile
oblivion 
or the inescapable fate—
DEATH.

if you don’t have 
leisure, as a poet
freedom from work
to meditate
when you need to 
and domestic stability 
to sit and mediate 
between the inner monster (SELF)   
and the outsider rebel (POET) 
and to dig into 
your most deeply buried  gems

all that is is futile 
an offence of wasted life

it is this long process
of engagement in some Idea, 
of unended quest for TRUTH
of a continuous exploration of SELF
of the way out of Entrapment 
that they call CREATIVE LIFE—
   
that you two idiots are trapped in:
YOU and YOU— 

the SELF and the POET!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015


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What is your culture? I am interested to know more.
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