I thought living was a time where I didn’t know when my last day was going to be.
only I do.
I spent my time trying to fit in boxes that I’m not square enough for.
I’ve tried to fit in spheres that I’m not quite round enough for.
I’ve tried to fit in jars and I’m not quite long enough for.
I’ve tried to fit in picture frames that are just too big for me.
I can’t fill any hole.
I can’t fill any empty space.
I can only make it worse.
When you look at things straight on,
It seems to me that they are gone.
When sideways-soft you take a glance
Does visibility advance.
Being too Upfront-What’s-This?
Leaves so much that you can miss.
I told them several times
This is not my place
Certainly I will go beyond!
It’s their turn
They appear in my dream
One by one
For a few minutes even
They make me feel, they are around
Soon I open my eyes, they disappear!
Shocked!
Mystery of these two worlds!
I live in one, disappeared they live the other!
In search of the other world
I dived deep
My goodness! It’s same! Commence with the event disappearance!
The one I live, appears real
Moments I live here, stepping stones
Mason in waiting in other side, path is disappearance!
He sat and thought
about how the world
stopped spinning
after she went away
she left one day
without a kiss
without saying goodbye
just disappeared
leaving his life barren
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I once had a cat,
she was so beautiful, sweet, and loving.
Mysteriously,
she just vanished one day without a trace.
I searched, called for days,
weeping into my pillow each night since.
I still wait .. . though I,
found my cat in the garden deathly still.
The ship sails out to the sea
From the beach the onlookers may spot
Leaning on the rails of the quay
How the ship soon turns to a dot
For the passengers looking back
The shore soon becomes a line
In a back view from the deck
No details an eye can define
Soon the ship disappears from sight
And the shore disappears too
And the view seen from both sides
Is the sea under skies of blue.
From quantum whispers,
a universe awakens.
A birth in stellar nurseries,
where light ignites.
Appearance and disappearance,
a dance of creation,
a cosmic ballet,
everlasting and fleeting.
Invisible to our limited sight,
a mystery in swirling existence.
Permanent yet ephemeral,
a cosmic puzzle,
beyond our grasp.
What traces remain?
when the stars fade away?
when galaxies collapse?
Are they truly gone,
or merely transformed?
Hidden in spacetime’s weave,
in the universe’s memory.
Appearance and disappearance,
teachers of impermanence,
choreographers of existence.
You are the heartbeat
of the cosmic symphony.
You are reality’s breath,
ever-present,
always shifting.
Left so overwhelmed
with all the tomfoolery;
Drowning in why try;
Operating in my lane,
never meant to set the pace;
Not made to follow,
they go right as I turn left;
Throw in a white flag;
My heart eviscerated,
I’m stuck between fight or flight;
Thinking of the group
that already forgot me;
A disappearance
from them and an about face,
you just can’t save everything.
clouds stand still in sky
barely moved to let moonshine
no glow on ocean
Gone without a shred of evidence that you even existed
DISAPPEARANCE
Light baptised my forsaken body
red whirling a glimmering ocean
Perseidon’s crystalline tears
drip-dropped into mine
manifesting oyster shells
Odysseus smiled blinking
compassion from diamond
rays of Arcturus
embalming my shoulders
with his terrible travels
Silent my soulmate disappeared
crawling onto an opposite bank
into fields of chaffed wheat
towards abyss black
She moulted into grains of rice
or maybe a ladybird’s swoon
floating between Venus wings
seeking her paintbrushes
cleaned and singing
I sought strawberry
yogurt
What else could
sorrow do ?
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&Song2013
as the moon begins its disappearance
leaving silver caps atop the waves
soon becoming an illuminated path
i am denied to journey upon
knowing it is rising for you
i am held captive in the sorrow
that life has left us
more than an enchanting moon
more than a captivating gaze
more than an ocean of separation
a distance we will never close
yet my heart holds you in a quantum entanglement
not even the breadth of the universe can ever separate
a heart who keeps you embedded in adoration
where quantum tunneling fails its mathematical model
impervious to any assault by the rust of time
it is a barrier clothed in eternity
it is where i will forever be
in love with you
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You didn’t come home at sunset
Disappeared at the edge of twilight
I’d wait till the end of the lonely night
Follow your footprints on sands of time
to the dawn’s sunburst horizon to find you.
May 25, 2021
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When you a petty thief house,
Expect a dramatic disappearance of your blouse
And one other filmic vanishing and sure goodbye
With his waiting, believable alibi.
When you all . webs browse,
Not against this holding a grouse,
You’ll definitely see
What shall make you feel at sea…
When you can’t from your hair extract a louse
You might not out-smart a cornering mouse…
If you can powerful emotions arouse,
You can a spitting fire douse!
When you a petty thief house,
Expect a dramatic disappearance of your blouse
And one other filmic vanishing and sure goodbye
With his waiting, believable alibi.
When you all . webs browse,
Not against this holding a grouse,
You’ll definitely see
What shall make you feel at sea…
When you can’t from your hair extract a louse
You might not out-smart a cornering mouse…
If you can powerful emotions arouse,
You can a spitting fire douse!
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