Yet, More Than a Brother

Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence Ardour suffocated with the noose of indifference Cataracts of devotion flows from the heart’s crevices Compassion brightens the visage with deep dimples Caressing arduous tasks to lighten others’ burdens Attrition grates the soul baring the mind’s low estate Audacious mien casts the mould of a mean persona Attracting pestering quizzes on casual promenades Undeterred optimism as binoculars peers into a future Unresting feet daily eat up distance seeking solitude Uncharted landscapes nuded and printed with flourish Life’s harsh lessons came bound in teeming volumes Lecturers of sundry genre pierce the ears from lecterns Long lonely nights pass away brooding tough theories Attention always spurned with multitude of entreaties Attires are the shields of invincibility from prying eyes Amazement and wonder to acquaintances and friends Years of toiling under hard-nosed instructors for a scroll Yielded bitter results hunting for game to stuff the table Yo-yo appointments as boulders crushing elevated hopes Obstinate phase of season invited foes within and without Ostracism dug wells of acrimony pulled by cord of hatred Outcast engraved on the forehead with pens of odious ink Longings stir for kindred spirits to occupy the soul’s void Letters are dispatched far and wide on wings of honesty Letting in respondents through the window of brotherhood Unbridled tongue lashes out blindly to sting innocent flesh Untainted heart in atonement pours out songs of lamentation Unseen are the weals of self-flagellation trenched in the heart Sequestered recompense curdled milk of unity with affront Stories unfurl the firmly swathed bard with mystical verses Satires the canvasses littered with brush strokes of humour Enigma garbs the character in fineries not of gold but awe Etchings of astonishment imprinted boldly on dull apparel Enamored of any able to break into the mind’s penitentiary Yearnings of affection resonate from the depth of the soul Yearlings and all invited to a banquet of friendship and love Yesterday’s delinquencies wiped with the duster of repentance Insatiable quest for erudition compels him to drink in cupfuls Imbibing in long drags the wisdom poured out on parchments Infused parched organs energized to purge constipated passions