Laissez-faire is the attitude I wear
For worrisome things I don’t give a care
Government may concern another
I’m not running, neither is my brother.
Some people are exacting and stern
From these peasants I prefer not to learn
You do it your way, I’ll do it mine
Then the world can get along totally fine
Words…
the great currency
inside my literary account
Inspiration,
the letters of credit
—freeing me to spend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
These were the times when I've Sat around
Thinking about
I've thought it through
Thought it out.
And in every single way
Every simple little
Solitary ORCHID filled day
I commend myself just because
I have let your
Heart hold me up.
I can tell you now
Baby it was my crutch
When I was falling down
Stripped Of my composure
I was one pitiful tear stricken SOLDIER.
Now, it's just as though
I was clutching YESTERDAY.
Memories so tenderly placed
They won't let me be
LAISSEZ-FAIRE BABY BABY
I will only trust my words to you.
Do you care about me?
Do you feel when I bleed?
Do you feel the Cold breeze
With icicles on its wings
Only HEAVEN KNOWS I
Suppose
The KINDLED fire of
My SOUL My heart composed.
A silent love AFFAIR
Take me there
Laissez-FAIRE
Darling beware
We keep to ourselves all our deepest affection
from a misguided notion that hearts need protection.
We offer love slowly and use great precaution,
when we ought to race and should love to exhaustion.
For no moment passes…not a singular one,
whether under the all-seeing glare of the sun
or the soft, cool gaze of uninterested stars,
that death ceases pursuit of what we think is ours,
then 'ere we are ready, it claims from our hands
all of the people we thought that we’d have
...to hold for another day.
08/13/15
The smile conceals, something.
Does not offer any cue.
You were still traveling
within.
You wanted to leave the world,
as it was, without cleaving
the wood, not accepting the veneer.
It rang an alarm bell.
To evolve their own persona;
good to take their own path.
The fallout was widening.This
was an insider’s story.
What an audacious withdrawl;
and you were in a silent mode like a Buddha
to uptake the film of dust
settling on the innocent rape of book.
Satish Verma
Give me a break! Shall you?
You say that you are free in free society
While your liberty is stolen!
By that freedom, so, let it be
Let them do as they will
Let them enjoy their marginal utility
Or leave it alone.
Sometimes I wish I were all alone
With no one to irritate, message or phone
Just leave me to myself
Try to understand my agony
Try and learn to be empathetic
Life cannot go without being sympathetic
I wish my biggest wish
To be alone and peaceful
A wish to relax and breathe
A wish to be cheerful
A wish to delete the most awful
My head aches with all the pain
Stop hurting because you will not gain
Is it too much to ask
Is it such a difficult task?
For once, I beg you to let go
Give me the time for thoughts of troubles to flow
Let the train of thoughts come to a standstill
What I ask may be hard to kill
I know there is no thrill
I know I am a retard
But u don’t have to discard
Just let me go and goodness will return
Keeping me tight will make me burn
Let me fly high...it is an important lesson to learn...
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