Neutral
Which side do you stand on when someone declares family is absolute?
Are you the loyalist who believes family is cardinal
With their belief that their law stands above the rest
They mock those who don’t agree with their beliefs
Or are you the broken, who believes family is just a lie
They refused any contact with them. Pretending they didn’t exist
They have nobody else to turn to besides themselves, and that’s okay
But did you know there is an inconspicuous side that nobody ever mentions
They are gray; they are neutral
They neither hate their kin nor do they love them
Why bother wasting energy on hatred? It’s meaningless
They don’t have to pretend to have any warmth in anything
Instead of having family as an anchor, they have something else
They have friends and a partner as their anchor
Yet if that family is in trouble, they run without haste
Duty may exist, but their devotion is dead
Family will always be put on the sidelines and placed last
No amount of pleading, judging, or mocking will persuade them otherwise
Their minds have already been made up
Solitude in search of peace
Omnipresent with the.universal being
Obedient to my chain of command
Kindhearted and willing to share
Dedicated to my family and duty
Enthusiastic about the future
Optimistic over the choices I make
Magnetically inclined to the truth
Artististically believing in myself
Neutral towards everyone I make contact
Ambitious to present my talent
Nonsensical leader to follow what is right
Skeptical about my friends
Intuitive patterns of thoughts
Naturalistic to the call of creation
Generous towards the weak and unfortunate
Honest and hardworking to achieve
The days drift by at summer’s pace,
Too insubstantial to embrace.
Without a goal that I can chase,
In neutral I am stuck.
Though I am home, most any place
Would seem the same, with just a trace
Of novelty to help me face
A way out of the muck.
No matter what, in any case,
The passing time might grant some grace,
My lethargy conceding space
To welcome back some pluck.
Money is neutral,
Gold for miracle worker,
Rascal for feral.
Sometimes you can neglect your neutral play
When you are in a traumatised community
While many people appreciate your work secretly
And continue learning from you covertly.
Neutrality is opposite of rivalry
But it can turn to be casualty
When the role seems perplexity
In the eyes of few people who identify
That neutrality is voluntary charity without faulty
But they standing to complicate things calculatingly.
July 31/2023
Wind blows to set strain apart.
Yet, sheep joyfully bear it a cross.
Hardly do they mind to depart,
Rather tag the fight posse.
Im not fake.
I bake natural cake.
It may really ache
And take time- for a sake
But never been opaque.
With joy, pen swims through tunnel:
For sacrifice, mind walks through the valley;
Fastening pages to the trunnel,
Trading lines and stanzas energy for galley.
Outpouring enough through grace funnel...
Flying birds, quills feather.
Chirping sounds good a say,
In all kinds of troubling weather.
Knowledge grows not grey.
Don't just know YOU:
Somewhat stupid and funny, a star.
Not only in all you do,
People choose to write you memoir.
Cherub's unfurled fingers faithfully extend to his fallow fringe
hung from a chest made firm by suede, sweat and rain.
Chernobyl blue irises mimic April '86 radiation,
dessimating her Cherokee's sense of societal decency.
Devoted to her capture, suede cape kidnapped,
kept protected.
Kernel lodges promise in her gut, cob of compassion sprouts
from yellow potential.
Shrewd Indian whisks his skin of citrine amber sap seraphim
away, to landscape blameless bare.
Motor mumbles underwater torture breathes through
chrome clothing.
Frothy stew swirling storm of snake flesh snow flakes.
Cherub's education quells emotion, pain never developed.
Teepee tall frame levitates in opaque of inequitable love.
Flimsy slim strands strong in Cherub's raised comprehension.
Fringe flown backwards flattens beneath her face,
bohemian bombastic.
Dislodged sand grains foretell
Grasp nestled naive fledgling
Prospered pillion flame
7th June 2022
Written for Contest:
Like A Child
Sponsor:
Regina McIntosh
Point To Be Noted
Q.If some women say we want to go to Mosque or Golden temple in bikini would that be OK?
Ans.No,because that place is not their property.Sure women can wear anything in public place but not those places which requires dress code.
Never stir up be-stilled waters
By throwing stones, peace matters.
It’s no use dwelling on spent years
That might well up long dried tears,
Nor yet musing on morrow’s cheers,
Hold on to now, neutral gears.
In now’s vast bosom doth live life,
Nowhere else is life so rife.
Look, an infant on mother’s breast,
Look, he’s on time’s tallest crest.
______________________________
Reflections |31.12.2020| Couplets
Topic: past, today
what happens in front of us
is shadowed in a variety of ways
by our perceptions, and preconceived beliefs
four of us see a truck run into a car
none of us see it exactly the same
we all think we are being neutral
neutrality is a concept we do not grasp
none of us can write it up completely nonbiased
without feelings, impressions, experience, and prior knowledge
What we report is not devoid of emotions.
We think it is, but it cannot be.
We cannot eliminate our humanness.
Not a single person is happy on earth
Still we praise God for his bountiful love and worth
If God were all powerful as everyone affirms
Why doesn't he end all our problems and confirms
So many die of hunger, so many unwell
Every one suffering, for many life is a hell
If he were a true father, he should find this unbearable
With true love his actions are no way comparable
Scriptures state we suffer for our sins
Because God gave us free will we sin
When we sin he watches without stopping us
Either he lacks power or doesn't care about us
God is heartless and merciless of all
Every sin we do punishment does befall
Sinners he will never acquit
No one can sin and get away with it
What I feel I am telling you
God is as helpless as me and you
If not helpless at least moody for sure
Not all you ask you will get I am sure
I feel God is neither bad nor good
He is a mere spectator doing what he should
He is doing it all maybe for livelihood
His role is definitely misunderstood
23.03.2021
Submitted to :
Contest Name : It only seems that way
Sponsor : Kai Michael Neumann
In a set up of community sections many factions working for good,bad or in between being a member of any set up it’s prudent to be neutral taking no side.In a stand of strange that no one can guess to which side we belong by this one can command the respect of all sections of the communities to prepare their ears to lend to this Man’s tongue.Peace will prevail in the entire set up.
To protect and serve
Is a blue line blurred
In a dated colour scheme
***
Barbie and Ken, you can now step aside
For Mattel's bringing new kids to town -
"Creatable World," as the dolls will be called,
In all skin tones from pale to dark brown.
Each doll comes with wigs, both a short and a long
And a wardrobe with skirt, shirt and pants,
So when children are playing, all choices are fine
And no one will be looking askance.
For gender-neutrality now has a place
In the market for fashion and toys
And being inclusive, the experts agree,
Curbs intolerance ere it destroys.
Though researchers found much support for these dolls,
Acceptance remains to be seen.
I myself am confused but I guess they'll be loved
By those children who feel in-between.
There is something wrong with me, I agree,
So now I try to figure what's wrong with the thing,
Is the thing wrong me or I wrong the thing,
If I wrong the thing yes blame on me,
So why the thing wrong with me and still point fingers at me,
You should find a way to control the thing,
it can be under the right thing,
And live happily aver after with something ,
neutral and balance with me.
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