A simple misconception,
Can lead to endless argumentation.
Once it started its initiation,
It'll always have a continuation.
The tension escalates,
While the calmness disintegrates.
How can you mitigate?
A situation from someone obstinate.
Everything starts small,
Then out of its area, it'll crawl.
Slowly climbing over the wall,
Leading to the downfall.
You're not someone I hate,
It's not even up for debate.
Your hunger can't be sated,
You'll uproot all, as if excavated.
The more we talk, the less we agree,
A situation everyone wants to flee.
When every point sparks a ghastly decree,
It can burst into a destructive degree.
Understand the concept,
Don't be inept.
Words have different depth;
If unsure, then don't make a step.
Avoid provocation,
Think of the conclusion.
It might destroy the dominion,
That grew from your affection.
Don't make any sudden demand,
Take a moment to understand.
Misunderstanding is like a quicksand;
Just a step and you'll be a part of the land.
Life's full of challenges
You will go through rocky roads
To be on the top.
A sleeping lion should not be provoked by a kitten, for, when he does, it is his lost, like tossing a gold in depth of fire in hunt for a brass.
January 17, 2024, PST, SPC
My dreams break at Fahad's realm
In thy tranquil mind,
Silently and softly flow,
On this sweat dunes bed.
By reality, as evening encroaching
The silhouette of the palm tree leaves,
Hides the full bloom moon,
Reminisce my beloved native land in tropic.
Every Friday is a holiday
Roaming to mall, eating and shopping
While mouth agape in golds store display,
Reminds me of my wife loves for jewelry.
Nevertheless, my mind grinding for two years
As ordeal of being an Overseas Worker.
How I wish, the toil, and endless longingness,
May appease the hungry belly back home.
Insane human provocation,
there goes the man
teasing the earth
with his sparse science ...
Defying the sky,
with unfortunate virulence ...
Nudges with short stick,
invents does not figure what
with his little wisdom ...
Poisoning the planet ...
Poisoning with:
burned,
soot,
Arsenic,
narcotics ... hemlock ...!
Once upon a time,
ignorance provoked knowledge by claiming it knew
more things than the latter could ever be able to
imagine.
" This is true" knowledge replied " for your art is falsity
and as such innumerable answers you may give but
myself, only one response I am allowed to provide:
the truth!"
© Demetrios Trifiatis
28 June 2020
Stroll along the avenue,
Moist with morning’s dew,
Wear your finest garb
Contacts here are few.
From a distant window,
Lips as red as flame,
She watches and she waits alone,
Perched and tame!
She’ll bide her time while watching
Your every maneuvering tension,
Mordacious in her style, yet
Intenerate in her invention!
Protection but provocation
Is unfair this attitude
This provocative protection
I wonder if is written on the forehead
That dark skin colours
Could steal you any time
You come across them
Is unfair this attitude
Hiding your wallet
Holding your pockets
Shifting afar
Just because you saw a dark person
Close to you
Wonder if is written thief
On our forehead
As same I wonder
Who thought you so
Is unfair this attitude
I see out of Africa
In the street bus trams
Shopping morns
This attitude is so not normal
What make dark people
Thieves
Must every dark soul you
Come across steal from you
How is it possible this acts
Of yours
So provocative
Is unfair this attitude
Anyone can steal anyone
And kindness is better
Than perceive instants judgement
Protect yourself yes
But when necessary
From an experience
I pen this write
Just to let know is so
Unfair this attitude of
Protection but provocation
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