You live for moments
For a light to shine on your face
It still remains dim
Longer nights — shorter days.
Atrocities run rampant,
as witches claim the dark,
gathering to drink their reddish water.
Longer nights — shorter days.
Grumbling, as if two minutes stretch into hours,
dizziness creeping in,
for the night no longer serves its purpose.
The panic of being a nobody
strikes through their minds,
daggers in their hearts,
slowly devouring them.
Longer nights — shorter days.
From the windowpane, the world is still.
Even when the cock crows,
the night lingers on.
-Fawass Olalekan Adelabu
huge immensity
of a billion galaxies
up there in night's sky
renders my tiny pitance
to seek solace in spirit
I’m not an artist
I’m not a genius
I’m not the largest or coming of Jesus
I’m not even close
Or even at most
I’m just a ghost and I’m draping my clothes
I’m just a debt
Another regret
I’m just a notion that you should forget
Just forget my face
I don’t have a place
I’m just an outline that will be erased
A needle in hay
I’m whispered away
I am just passing through no I’m not here to stay
This was not bad
This wasn’t the worst
I won’t be the last and I won’t be the first
A light empty sigh
They lay me to die
I’m just passing through so you should say goodbye
Entered unannounced
Exiting here
I disappear
The color of love will prevail: we, white,
black, yellow, red, shall pacify the clash
between good folks and ignorant, white trash,
haters who oppress others without right!
In numbers, unity explodes like night
afire with light (like a delivering flash!)
swiftly tearing down hate with a loud crash,
silencing bigotry's bark, and racism's slight.
For none can dismantle the message of
bold, fearless Youth who challenge the old view,
and share a new worldview proclaiming love,
justice, and equal rights we never knew.
Our tribes can live in peace and rise above
as one, working together as one hue.
It's all
Concepts..
But somehow
Rendering an
Insignificance
To concepts
Cheers separation
In its persistent
And undisturbed
Lair..
Another concept...??
So small
insignificant it would seem
Alone
Waving in the wind
From the view
point
Of the dirt
Looking up
Wanting to be
More
Never realizing
Just how
Important
A blade of grass
really is
If only a blade can
Look from above
It would see
All the
Blades surrounding it
Never alone
Always holding
The earth
together
So the
Pressures from the
Elements
Don't wash
Away
No matter how
Insignificant
You may feel
You are needed
And wanted
And you my blade
Are holding
Your spot on the earth
To keep it from
Washing away.
The meekly
mollified man
subtly sews
his silently
simplistic sights
upon reality’s
rickety rufescent light .
Always left
lifelessly looming
beneath the brain’s
bashfully blurred
background
of benevolence.
Frankly flickering out
the faded flaws
whose firm
factual flames
of effectiveness
have by now
grimly grown
themselves
out of Life’s
limp lashes
of limelight .
Solemnly swearing
their silent
silken seas
of sorrow
into the
sulking sands
of insignificance .
extreme the hand snatch the cup
I will collect pride
very good morning my injured limbs
my sons
remember that time only disasters?
but everything in the flesh achieves healing
and already my defeats knew before:
the audacity of courage ignores
who will soon wear shame
she shrinks she hermit gets shy
spreads the sour scent of runaways
quarter to six I woke up
coffee how many sips did i take before i knew?
our trifle insignificance
on the outside it's just a skinny shell
in the middle nerve pulsate membrane
and in the core where it weighs tons
act the gargoyle
that accuses us of being nothing,
my injured limbs,
my sons
These ragged shards of breath, catching in my lungs with grasping fingers of jagged glass
Howling tormented wolves in my mind, clawing and shredding the last remnants of the last
Desperate attempts to live, temerarious in the quest to quench their thirst with blood
Monsters lurk in the shadows of my eyes, hungry for my conscious suffering
No rest, no peace, no sleep for sinners, servants to a greater ill, mindless revolutions of pain
Spinning endlessly in space, reaching for a cold and distant sun without the light of lies
A frozen, broken waste stretches in the expanse of my eyes, terror stalking ceaselessly
In every hidden juncture of the labyrinth of my mind, dark embodiments of hatred, shame, and anger
My eyelids are weighted, crusted in the sands of the blazing desert of my soul
Scraping away my retina with every blink, gasp, choke for air, smothering and breathless
Into infinity I carry loneliness, alone, unwept, unsung, swept into the vast waters of time
Drowning in the enormity of insignificance I wait, sleepless.
Is there something so unique about us
It must be studied
Rats in a maze
Trapped between testing success and error
Predictable responses to critical impetus
The same trickery carefully edited
For the next information gathering phase
Caught between a fortune and a failure
Rats in a maze
The monkey in a box
Predictable programming for gaining essentials
Problem solutions for subsistence
Collecting data for analysed survey's
Finding ways to unpick the locks
And use this predilection
Towards abusive human exploitation
The rights of rats are insignificant
The plans of tyrants prove their competence
THE EYE WORLD EYE LAW
In yet another human experiment
Insignificance
The monkey in a box
What great dimension of the vast beyond
makes Earth a microscopic vagabond?
October 7, 2021
Premiere Contest:
Your Best Rhyming Couplet #3
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins
There you are, my Earth!
I see you here next to our Moon
In this wondrous book- zoomed-in,
You shine above the rest
With cars and people everywhere-
Bridges, trains, skyscrapers, jets
Blue oceans with majestic ships-
Those wonders of our age,
Right here upon your sphere exist,
You great, important, busy, busy world.
There you are, my Earth-
and yet-
Where are you, Earth?
Amid this endless cloud of dust
I can barely see you- just a tiny dot
In this wondrous book, zoomed out,
I find you on this page with straining eye
So lost inside our giant Milky Way
A drifting grain of sand in time
A microscopic, whirling speck,
One of the millions, billions, trillions
Caught in cosmic winds with all the rest-
Where are you, Earth?
August 25, 2018
Contest: Wonderstruck Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Robert James Liguori
Reversible Poem: can be read downwards
and upwards.
INSIGNIFICANCE
On earth’s unimagined vastness we creep
Yet unaware that she swims an even vaster pool
Whose abysses can not be plumbed deep
By the longest line of reasoning or rule
Each man tills his small part of the orb
But the plough merely scratches the surface
Leaving her with no permanent mark on her robe
Pyramids and walls the sand will efface
As children seeking flies on the water or sand
Or men in dreams wandering down endless lanes
Each aspires to arrange, to control, to understand,
But controlling nothing, not even himself as he wanes
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Written By Sydney Peck
Entered in John Freeman's Contest
"Retread What You’ve Said, And say it Better"
How deep are our souls?
The immeasurable depths,
To which each individual delves
Only to revel in the question
Of their significance
The first breath of each day
Gives minutes away,
To who? To me, myself and I?
No, others who believe they are important
Not restrained from the question
Of their own significance
Shallow puddles take time
To refill, how long? When each raindrop
Falls in a different manner,
However, no one is there to ask the question
Of their own significance
Some can sit and wonder, ponder
Why certain names are better known
Than others. Why achieve?
Why not bother? But be there to ask the question
Of their own significance
Dreams are illusions or quite not,
Yet a fuel to light someone’s future.
Love like a candle can be lighted by anyone,
Just always, answer the question
Of your own significance
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