Girl suddenly wept
As tears falling on her chest
Boy knelt plead forgive.
All of a Sudden
outside the sun has given up
the stories told are changing
clouds are fingers of a moving hand
that hold and press the passion
of a frozen day against my eyes
and through my hands the burning void
calls another season to an end
my sorrow cuts the shapeless air
each moment starts with what I've known
a table in a crowded room
dark with hidden voices
and falls away from there
your yellow perfume lingers like a halo
over where you've been
I can't recall how long I stayed
talking to an empty chair
and as today winds down to night
your smile forms up around me
sharp and turned just enough
to know what's next and still enjoy
the soft and bright unfolding
A day like any other is taking place
With me hanging out with friends;
Just seeing them puts a smile on a face,
And it makes me glad to meet them again.
My day is moving forward with time
And I'm entertained by my friends conversation;
But I remember I have a deadly obstacle to climb,
One that will have my body paralyzed and render my recollection.
I sit down at my desk and prepare my stuff
As the teacher is giving her lecture to the class;
All of a sudden my body hits the floors so rough,
My brain takes every memory of mine first till last.
As I feel my muscles tense up and jolt violently
It is my head that hits the floor incredibly hard;
Causing more of whats happening constantly,
And pretty soon this seizure will be my last card.
I regain my consciousness slowly but surley
With the help of a girl who sits next to me;
Supporting me up until I am able to stand firmly,
But also reminding everyone of the space I need.
Now I am up and somewhat responsive
Though I am nauseous and dizzy from the incident;
This is something I was born with and is unwanted,
So I have to accept the fact that the seizures aren't an accident.
Two Tanka: 4 & 5
4) I am wandering
since when I became a man
easily move to
tears by a touching story
unworldly one’s noble deeds
5) all of a sudden
I like sending a letter
to the friend afar
troubled mind cannot shake off
written on a drifting cloud
It's like this strange feeling hit me almost instantaneously,
for a while, I felt nothing but insanity in my life,
and ongoing tragedy, of a young girl, trapped in the wrong world.
But suddenly, it all seems so clear to me,
I can be free from fear, no more tears, or the slightest thought of another nightmare.
It was such a dark phase, not a dark life,
I'm so thankful that I can finally see the light.
I don't need someone to make me feel happy,
I should have seen it sooner, there's no need for me to suffer any longer.
Honestly, it's a brand new me, I feel clean, shiny, the world is so serene.
All of a sudden it hits me now, I should live life in the present,
and forgets all of the resentments.
All of a sudden it me, this is my life..isn't it somehow lovely?
It happened all of a sudden
My own village outgrowing its own space
With its sun bathing golden paddy spikes gone for good
Usurped as they are by the murky canopies of rubber trees
A second hand substitute with a sky high profit line
Through which a speckled sun peeps down
On fields which were once free of fleas and ticks
Whose air grew a thousand butterfly fingers
To caress you to a new life
And which is now home for midges and mosquitoes
Sinking fast hostile barbs into your same-same flesh
That but flinches though immune to pin pricks
Uncured as they are of avarice.
The sound of thunder grows louder each second
the tremor, the vibration inanimate yet like a weapon
Softly the rain pelts down on me
Setting the swollen clouds free . . .
My love for you knows no conditions.
Whatever you were, whatever you’ll be.
I even accept the propositions
That you will never, could never, love me.
Please forgive me if I now seem depressed.
And do not let these words affect you.
For all my madness is a love repressed,
I can not tell you, but it continues.
My pain, to know your out there somewhere
and that to another, your love, you will give.
What could I have that could at all compare
to the life you seek or the way you live.
All of a sudden there is no pleasure.
Just the pain. The abyss. The failure.
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