Time hands seconds past the minute,
winter melts the sands,
sprung barter the seeds to take root,
petals leave for lands.
Abandoned juice bathes the barren,
weather soaks wet dreams,
towering outstretched limbs fashion,
cries tear up the streams.
Quartered the core green overgrowth,
sweet fester the sour,
fertile soil sources root approach,
West turn sunset lour.
Stockers fatten wanting store shelves,
greens packaged refreshed,
farmers loaded like Christmas elves,
checks at counters cashed.
Shoppers and grocers swapping smiles,
carts staggering highs,
past harvested fields, endless miles,
as New Year's Eve, nigh's.
Saša Milivojev - SEVERANCE
To overcome, relinquish
and forget,
black – hearted eyes, as well as innocent,
feigned words of solace
and bitter embrace.
To forget the joys, affections and desires,
hardship and bliss,
friends and enemies,
smiles and tears and prayers.
To be insincere.
To write no more verses.
To trust not a soul.
To understand no one and naught.
To forgive not.
To pass a verdict ‘pon oneself of
remoteness and taciturnity.
And soar towards the glistening
of Cosmic dark infinity.
Saša Milivojev
Translated by Ljubica Yentl Tinska
visit: www.sasamilivojev.com
Severance Pay
His job as Guillotine Tester was short lived.
10/12/2016
for Live or death one liner contest
There was a butcher from Elmsgate
Who drank every day to celebrate.
One tipsy day at the chopping block
He swung his cleaver ad hoc.
Now he knows just how to amputate.
My true love was with you
except I did not allow my actions to see it through.
I knew in my soul that we were meant to be
for our love for one another was our special destiny.
Your affection for me were forever there when needed
until you sense in your heart that I cheated.
My heart was torn that I hurt you
and my feelings became blue.
I could not bear to hear the word Good-Bye
because those seven letters made me want to cry.
Each and every time I knew in my flesh our love
had deplete since my action for this relationship
was from deceit.
I could not live with myself
knowing that my mind was somewhere else.
I could not let this disloyal action continue anymore.
Knowing you will get hurt if I prolong the secret
I wait some more.
This course of action I no longer want to explore.
I took for grant what I had as my unfaithful ways
blocked my sense of judgment and kept me sad.
I did not really want to emotionally hurt you
I elected to leave and so you could start over new.
I rejoice in the Lord
Fore on this day
He hath found
Favor with
You,
At His council
And has
Prepared for you
A blessing
Unto your Soul
And ye shall surely
Dwell in the House of
The Lord forever
Amen
GF
*****This is a good-bye for my nephew Lil Gary Fields' who was
taken too soon from us, but for the Grace of the Lord!
Tolled the bell, lichen scarred and
green ingrained the brass
clanging out of key and jarred
when severance came to pass.
Rocked the pulse, neurosis slowed and
pounded sly and weak,
untruthful psalms died on the road
disinheriting the meek.
Fired the treason signal flare and
cobalt turned to grey,
to earth it fell without a care,
it burned out far away.
Picking up the pieces and
a blue dismembered child,
the anger soured the thesis
of an innocence defiled.
Tolled the bell, cracked with doom and
discord shook the scene;
ethnic cleansing drove the broom
and swept the graveyard clean.