Tentativeness

Times get spent in eternal search,
Betwixt life and death life perch;
Holding here; holding there,
Hanging like monkey; not fully aware;
Temptations of growing higher creep in,
Like other unfulfilled desires within;
Illusions-filled dreams; nasty nightmares,
Midst these, sleep stands and stares;
Kith and kin assure: we're here, 
Who truly cares? - is to none clearly sure;
Having peripherally pleased and within cursed,
Friends and relatives go around as nothing happened;
Momentary joys, like, butter over toasts, glitter,
Only to melt and make their presence blur;
Butterflies and dragonflies; moths and beetles,
Get pecked by instantly appearing eagles;
Confusions and chaos in annuls of graves end,
Eagerness of living, like untimely moon, seems crescent;
Quest, in forms of queries, persist,
At one stage, as act of death, everything does exit...


13 March 2022
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Poteet Avatar
March 15, 2022 at 7:21 AM
You have covered the gamut of thought, Alex. I was drawn to these lines: "Kith and kin assure: we're here, / Who truly cares? - is to none clearly sure;" So, so true. Also spent a precious hour this morning googling a fellow poet that I don't even know or like; just to find out more about him and why he writes as he does. Excellent, thought provoking.
George Avatar
March 14, 2022 at 9:23 PM
Momentary joys, like, butter over toasts, glitter, Only to melt and make their presence blur; Yes, life is so fleeting and joys and sorrows end at the grave. Very profound brooding on life and its transience! Congratulations Chris !
Alex Avatar
March 15, 2022 at 6:39 AM
Thank you very much.
Goff Avatar
March 14, 2022 at 7:59 PM
This is deep Christuraj...love it! need to read a few times, absorb, congrats!
Alex Avatar
March 15, 2022 at 6:38 AM
Thank you very much.
Gibson Avatar
March 13, 2022 at 9:51 AM
Really like "sleep stands and stares." i have been there a few times. Great imagery. Thanks for your kind comments.
Alex Avatar
March 13, 2022 at 10:23 AM
Thank you very much.
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