If, even for once in our life,
We exclaimed: " How beautiful life is."
Unquestionably,
We have justified all misfortunes,
That fate does upon us bring!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
02 September 2022
From fortunes
You may jump into misfortunes
With uncontrollable greeds that
Intervene at the gambling tables
Once you win, you'll eager for more
Until you lose
All your fortunes
As luck is not always
On your sides
Sometimes it betrays
Just like man betrays his god
lilac lethargies
dispatch De Sade disciples
cooing on Justine's
collective erotic pain--
cameo cannibal thirst
It passes
But not in the quite
Of a slagging snail
It does, just not without scars
It sweeps along with our icons
It comes,
Like a hailstorm and cyclone
Burning flames and washing floods
It roars like it has a life
But it passes
The mark of the wise is to praise God even in the presence of misfortunes!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
22 August 2018
In periods of misfortunes Man on his knees God implores for his suffering to confine
When prosperity comes and all goes fine Man seldom remembers to thank the divine
© Demetrios Trifiatis
06 August 2018
On the anvil of misfortunes, the character of the faithful, God forges!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
16 March 2016
* IT SEEMS, AFTER HAVING WRITTEN THE ABOVE MONOKU,
THE GOOD LORD DECEIDED TO DO SOME ADDITIONAL FORGING
ON ME, THEREFORE, I REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT I HAVE TO
STAY AWAY FOR AN UNSPECIFIED PERIOD OF TIME! IT IS NOT A
HEALTH PROBLEM! THANK GOD FOR THAT! THANK YOU ALL!
Five years have passed
Along with six lovers
And when I look back
I noticed
That all of them seem to be
Very much alike
I guess that I am attracted
To that type of woman
You know
The kind that makes you
Pull away
Never letting you get too close
While all the time
She creates this distance
I feel as though
I must make her love me more
Break down the walls
Let her see how good I am
And how much she means to me
And although
I unconsciously do it
This is the type of love
I have repeatedly sought
The type I always create
Knowing that in the end
She will surely go
And I will be left
With a new poem to write
About my misfortunes
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