Warfare is deception
Warfare is destruction
Destruction of human dignity
Destruction of peace
Peace is expensive
Peace is essential
Essential to build humanity
Essential to joyful living
Living with respect
Living with dignity
Dignity is a right
Dignity is a want
Want to feel the grace
Want to feel the life
Life is special
Life is precious
Precious is knowledge
Precious is honesty
Honesty in living
Honesty in thinking
Thinking always positive
Thinking always mindful
Mindful is to be calm
Mindful is to learn calm
Calm in facing hatred
Calm in facing jealousy
Jealousy is inefficiency
Jealousy is inablity
Inability in achieving
Inability in contentment
Contentment is core of simplicity
Contentment is wealth
Wealth is being healthy
Wealth is to feel prosperity
Prosperity is state of mind
Prosperity is litmus test
Test to see one’s gratitude
Test to see one’s faith
Faith in oneself
Faith in one’s soul
Soul is best friend
Soul is consciousness
Consciousness is purity in thought
Consciousness is to be in peace
Peace should be found when alive
Peace is not sought at end
End is divine conviction
End is potential of life
Life…
Living…
my husband asked if I was going on a date
Because I am not wearing a nightie or pajamas
I am going to Urgent Care, remember? I say in a snotty voice.
His brilliant idea of asking a pharmacist to prescribe something
did not work for me.
I have already gone the route of inefficiency for three days.
Time to see an expert
Even if it means wearing clothes.
Nothing!
There is nothing in for the long haul
Bliss, pelf and fame will become pale as white sheet
Dolour, lack and inefficiency will be silent as dull
All are in the cage of deceit.
Behold! Life passes like a waving from a moving train
Which we will join its berth if we receive the call
Everything in life is conceit
Only God can safe all
So that we won't suffer in life and lose heaven’s profit.
I
Excellence in service, equalities
In society: access to every utility
Makes men and me dependent
Until depending on undependables
Makes us meek, mad or uncivilized
But for those accidental attractions
II
Like stars at night, without man's light
Beautiful, delicious darkness
Sets off the diamonds in domed Crown
Sliver of a moon makes memories
Old and new about the heaven, universe
Thank you South Africa (Eskom) for failures
Your corrupt business model takes us back
(to beauty as God meant it for we to see)
When I got there, I saw none:
All the kids aged Twelve gone;
The Dreamers to be University Don;
Plus the one I knew would be A CON
His case files already weighing a ton
And should make The Faint-Hearted run!
An Unacceptable Habit has been born
And True Discipline badly torn;
You ask me its name - Brazen Truancy:
A school child’s infuriating Flippancy
And Vast Topic in Delinquency …
Announcing and condemning Teacher’s Inefficiency
But alluding some father’s Inadequacy
And Character Training’s unchallenged intricacy
A truancy of a chosen morn
Was to hit the next day’s dawn
With the deviants refusing to mourn
Because it has to do with corn
They weren’t told its color could be fawn!
In far-off places
More darkness than light - few rules
I have your heart, smile
Power is cut, but I write
Your light: no blackouts ever
I'm believing that next year,
will be better than the last,
One thing for sure,
I won't dwell in the past.
I cannot recall,
anything easy or simple,
The entire year,
I'm in pain and a cripple.
I can barely walk,
my hips will not engage.
I feel helpless,
and my temper is in a rage.
I'm not able to work,
you could say I'm a gimp,
Being handicapped,
no place for a wimp.
I can't get no help,
from social security,
Government offices,
run on inefficiency.
I'm not even able to get,
decent medical attention,
This blows my mind,
out of my comprehension.
I have a friend,
who helps take care of me,
Looks like old age,
is not hassle-free.
January first,
I will have Medicare,
They charge me 150.00 a month,
I have not a penny to spare.
I went to court,
a judge ruled in my favor,
This is where,
things began to waiver.
Every month,
I struggle to pay my rent,
Social Security,
gives me grief and torment.
I hang in there,
because this year will be a better year,
If nothing else,
I'm implored to persevere….
TURBO1904
It might not be the sharpest of blades,
But that doesn’t mean I can’t skin a deer and,
Rather than curse the inefficiency of the instrument,
Wonder at my own ability to compensate for its dullness.
The experiences
Of my past
Influences my mind
In all directions
So much tension
Goes distorted
Not knowing the true and false
Midst of hallucination
Amongst fact and fiction
Tangled up
Twisted wires
Functioing in my brain
Being fear
Thought people hate me
For my inefficiency
Haunting me
Being burden in their eyes
Keeping
Reacting
Like a mad woman
Tightened chest
Grasping
Racing thoughts
Escalating
To the mountains of screams
Cannot take it
Fists into punches
Going front
Without hestitation
Glass shatters all over
Shard cuts
On me
Till last one
Away from crazy maze
Realizing hidden reasons
Causing my mind
To go wild
Being embarassed
Yet glad
It is so clear to me
Fixing whatever I can
Even the past haunts me
It can wait
See me walk away
Not able to hear it anymore
© Sue Sanzz 2020
why not why not make an effort
to do the right deeds as it is a natural art
i do to gain
and i see to ward off the the inefficiency the everlasting pain
as i move ahead i see the world
and i know it the effort that has made the world
persevernce is the quality
that fills the man of effort with ability
efforts are made for qick succeses
and i know i dont have to have any wrongful excesses
and thus making an effort is right
as it will take the world far and wide
My fault
My strange feeling
A glimpse turn life
Beauty in priceless breathe
Words inefficiency becomes pronounced in the thought of you
It's you now and this dream is complete.
My fault
My strange feeling
A glimpse turn life
Beauty in priceless breathe
Words inefficiency becomes pronounced in the thought of you
It's you now and this dream is complete.
Forgo friendships built on sand dunes
Scattered in the desert of expediency
Driven by greed and ceaseless searches for fortunes
Flying in air balloons of inefficiency.
Forgo fantasies caught up in streams of nonsense
Cajoled in monsoons of short-termism
Driven by myopia and a seasoning of offence
Regurgitated with aplomb to neutralize feminism.
Forgo dreams of grandeur granted a status
Commensurate with duplicity and paucity
Of ideas and ideals in a sea of hiatus
Longing to break free of opacity.
Forgo attachments fastened to fragility
Expressed in tones sugar-coated
To energize and incentivize febrility
In friendships deemed overrated.
Introspective Agony
Shattering all the imagery, my mirrored visions lost inside
Catapulting out the memories I should've never left behind
Gliding on deceptive Angel Wings, wind chilled in silent lies
Gasping for the air I need while breathing my goodbyes
To arrogant to accept the unacceptable things of fate
The paradox of this frantic Being annihilating what I create
Scientific mathematically writing solutions that won't equate
Walking the inside out of all the emotions we complicate
Last chance thought collectively, the three of me must decide
Is suffering worth the agony if in happiness we never cry
The inefficiency in disaster seeking, two worlds one mind collide
Time lost in the catastrophe of never living but have I died...
Revised: 05/14/17
For Contest: "Introspect" Deep inside you
In a utilitarian, profit-maximizing economy
Where supply only meets demand
And demand runs only for those
Willing and able; where the margin
Between total revenue
And total cost must be largest;
Where taxes are necessary evil
As they cause disincentive to work
And subsidies too as they
Breed the disgrace of inefficiency;
Where it is all about sustained
Growth and low inflation and
Low unemployment and
Healthy balance of payment and
Efficiency in resource allocation and
Maybe equity, but not quite
Equality, and perhaps standard of living
But hardly quality of life—
This is what is heard of them:
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