It's not the pitch-black scene that surrounds me ominously.
Suspense-filled 'what's hidden within?' feelings heavily haunt
Visions of serpents creeping around precariously
Appear and disappear like nightmares and jeeringly taunt
Though, sometimes, death-like is this dark environment outside.
There's a purgatory-like gloom encircling me within.
From the angels of inner illumination, I hide
My wrath, rage, hate, and mercilessness throw me into sin.
A glimpse of awareness, yet, like a little ray, is seen.
A lamp of optimism, though flickering, is burning still.
Why should I be my foe? Nay. May my friendship with me clean.
Shouldn't I, like an enlightened self, do the divine will?
The nectar brim fills when petals unfold in detachment.
Hungry flies and bees around drink to their hearts' contentment.
Attachment, aversion, and delusion are malignant.
Defeating darkness, I find existential fulfilment.
Categories:
mercilessness, dark, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Embrace your inner hatred and release
Love; fullness forever, to realize.
Embrace your unhappiness and release
Joy; fullness forever, to realize.
Embrace your hostility and release
Peace; fullness forever, to realize.
Embrace your impertinence and release
Patience; fullness in life, to realize.
Embrace your mercilessness and release
Mercy; fullness in life, to realize.
Embrace your debauchery and release
Goodness; fullness in life, to realize.
Embrace your unkindness, ever release
Kindness; fullness in life, to realize.
Embrace your agnosticism and release
Faith; fullness forever, to realize.
Embrace your intemperance and release
Calmness; fullness in life, to realize.
5th May 2021
Categories:
mercilessness, faith, joy, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Onwards towards that open air we’re to breathe!
It’s time for us our clenched fists to unsheathe
And with the rage we’ve swallowed we now seethe!
We should batter the roof of this vast jail
Down on this global dog until its tail
We cut and reach the fresh air to inhale.
Its barking puppies we should never heed.
Mercy on them on the earth is indeed
But mercilessness to the sheep. Proceed!
This vicious dog that has shattered the dreams
Of regal great souls* and gone to extremes
Should be chained with all its puppet regimes.
This wrathful river that shall overthrow
Despotic palaces as a last blow
Is our age-old festered, deferred dream flow.†
To behave as humans they had much time
Which they wasted and never quit their crime.
Now they’ll have nowhere to hide but in slime.
We shall not stop before we reach our aim,
To raise a new flag free of free world’s blame,
Purged of a long life of slaughter and shame.
6.15.2020
* See Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Slave’s Dream”.
† See Langston Hughes’s “Harlem” (also entitled "A Dream Deferred").
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Categories:
mercilessness, america, anger, world,
Form: Tristich
looking to the better tomorrow
standing on each and every promise
looking at the differences
and wondering if there is something better
with someone else
thinking about things some else did wrong
not looking at what you did wrong yourself
holding your pride and keeping your head up
knowing and believing in the trust
of those tommorows
the days were these differences
are seen as chances
glances to make
something strange known and understood
calming the shores of the story sea
making those dry places the places were we know safety is
and finding some where to lay your head when we rest to sleep
when those eyes
have seen the coming of the next day
where the sun makes show upon the sky
there were we wake and see
our renewing
there beyond the newday sky
right now we see this together
might then tomorrow it might never change
pray ye God of this earthly world
in this glorious morning sight
that your mercy is as gracious
as the weary power of mercilessness
and your grace is as wonderful
as your might
Categories:
mercilessness, celebration, encouraging, fishing, introspection,
Form: Ballad
Revenge
Cruelty
penalty
punishment
mercilessness
pitiless
mean payment
repayment
returning anger
retaliation
peaceless
pain-return
unforgiven
sour thoughts
vengeance
payback
harm
injury.
Drench POET Loads
Categories:
mercilessness, anger,
Form: Narrative
Quote Prompt:
"How is it so easy for you to be kind to people?" he asked...
Milk and honey dripped from my lips and I answered,
"cause people have not been kind to me."
-rupi kaur
I've been swept into the depths of hell and back-
seen sights of cruelness beyond life's recognition,
and yet-
here I stand tasting life, as sweet as honey-
mercilessness creates virtuous benevolence...
November 1, 2016
Categories:
mercilessness, betrayal, discrimination, inspiration,
Form: Verse
The looting; the crying
The shooting; the dying
The terror; the fright
The horror; the flight
The torture; the pain
The effort; the strain
The nightmarish dreams
The blood chilling screams
The stench; the decay
The struggle, the dismay
The unthinkable
The abominable
The demolition
The decapitation
The execution
The extermination
The anguish
To languish
The mercilessness
And fruitlessness
And woe
Of war
Categories:
mercilessness, crazy, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
somewhere in the back of the freezer,
there is an old gallon of ice cream
somewhere in the middle of the refrigerator,
there is a cup with some cold cashew milk in it
somewhere deep inside of me,
there is a hollow space where my heart used to be
my whole body has been replaced by ice
my whole mode of thinking has been overtaken by the mercilessness of the cold
in the center of everything that is me,
there are no friends
in the corners of my life that used to be free,
there are no ends
at the surface of every angle that struggles to be,
there is no life who depends
somewhere along the way,
i lost touch with the rudiments of life
someplace within the decay,
i allowed black cloud normality to simply suffice
at some point between the turn of night to day,
i ceased all efforts to healthily sacrifice
the ice cream is now gone
there is no more cold cashew milK to sip on
all that remains is bad gas, regrets, and many wishes
i now barely exist counting the merciless gnats as i wash the same six dishes
Categories:
mercilessness, grief, heartbroken, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
O, yes, he is exclusively competent
as the national leader
that tightly compatible and coherent
with his time and national traditions.
He had done all for the rise our stupid ambition
and blind glory, post-soviet and post-tsarists illusions
as the perfect relict from past and wild centuries
when cruelty and mercilessness had been justified
for the price of surviving the nation.
Yes, he was merely anachronism and pure extra-rodent,
but also the perfect master of alienating
and usurping all our national richness and rights -
he just took all this things from us
transforming himself for the strong geopolitical figure
and enslaved our fragile society
quenching processes of democratizations deliberately
for the personal influence and welfare.
He was not just the most atavistical president,
previously completely unknown
as one faceless agent from intelligent services
he was exclusively competent
as the politic-relict from past centuries
as genius of that retrograde power and glare.
Categories:
mercilessness, political,
Form: Verse
I Am Death
I am death,
But I am afraid of you.
I know its too contradicting.
But, its really true.
I am loosing my mercilessness,
I am loosing my cruelity,
Dont come closer,
I am afraid of your purity.
I am afraid of your generosity.
You are crystal clear like dew.
Thats why I am afraid of you.
I have kissed millions of your fellows,
But why my lips are shivering before kissing you.
I can't embrace you,
I can't caress you.
I am afraid of your chastity.
I am afraid of your virginity.
You are too tender.
You are very new.
Thats why I am afraid of you.
Now, I can't harm you.
I am regretful for what I was going to do.
I am death
But I am dying for you.
Because I am afraid of you.
Categories:
mercilessness, death
Form: Imagism