Never ,
You can't be the one
I had sacrificed myself
For what reason was none
No,
You can't be the one
I had betrayed my parent
Causing a image retrenchment
Nor,
You can't be the one
I had devastated me
To give you my sweet honey
And sustained a life of bee
Yeah,
You are the one
Used me as material
I am nothing for you
Inspite as a clue
No you are not
You are not the one......
Lulled by the summer breeze enchantment
He succumbed to sleep* dream's engagement
First, he plunged to pool pleasure
Ending with lounging leisure…
Now, he prays against work retrenchment.
*Proverbs 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
June 13, 2020
Honorable Mention, "Summer Laziness" Limerick Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Mohan Chutani; judged on 6/18/2020.
He steadily climbed the mountain,
though he slid and slipped, but safely
held by the climbing ropes. "Where can I get
the pinnacle of joy?" he asked, his soul really disturbed.
There was a local legend that the mountain had a pinnacle of joy;
if anyone touched it, joy would be absorbed right into the soul!
The mountain top he reached, saw the pinnacle, touched it, but
he remained the same as he was before; memories of recent divorce,
retrenchment, and loss in a bet were still haunting him. That's the moment
he realized that the pinnacle wasn't in a mountain or any mountain, but in his mind...
The soul aches
numbs the brain
images float away of women
crying, laughing, ironing sheets
thinking about jobs and sex
finding work
cooking cheap spaghetti
Playing with malnourished children
recovering from trauma, turmoil
turbulence, schizophrenia
from wombing life
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garlands with O P E N hands
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