is it wise forgiving ~ if one has doubts or the slightest misgiving
very good question said god ~ and why i only judge the unliving
Unliving your memory
—unbreaking my heart
(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)
The Shine Of Secret Love
In the ensuing evening of low-moon time,
I am continually astonished at the rate of the dying.
What has happened to these endless dead,
These unliving shadows dressed in ripe memory?
Such sentient moments spent in a haze
nailed to the wall,
Such ancient voices still speaking of vanished lives,
Of obscure conversations in the old morning hours.
These dead souls still know the
turns and the names of the ancient avenues;
I can see their faces again and
hear their familiar voices in the coughing fog,
We can sit here in this darkness and
Leer at the lascivious naked moon,
Strutting up there, looking for the shine of secret love.
Or we can walk this slow avenue holding hands,
Maybe find the Life Stone of our lives and heartbeats.
Maybe we can stand under this curious streetlamp and
Kiss for an hour.
I was drifting in a senseless daze.
Comfortably numb, unloving and unliving.
You awoke something deep in me.
Something lost since the time of innocence.
Life, returned, love, returned.
Longing as new and old, as beautiful and wrenching as I could ever remember or imagine.
I wish I didn’t have to miss your face, your laugh, your eyes and wisdom.
But I do.
Terribly.
I died a little inside to remove the cobweb of unliving.
Dated-07-02-2019
A love that is not sated
Lies in a poisoned bed
Where monsters just created
Writhe, unliving and undead
None knows on what they're fated
None knows on what they're fed
1.Nothing profitable to life
than giving to poor.
2.Praising is glory, if
given to poor.
3.Nothing last long than
the unique fame.
4.Achieving unending fame heaven
not praise saints.
5.Ruin and death rare
other than intellectuals.
6.Enter with determining fame
otherwise better disappear.
7.What use unfamiliar blaming
others instead repenting.
8.Not achieving unending fame
disgrace for mankind.
9.Land bearing unfamiliar people
diminishes its usefulness.
10.Life without defame, living
unfamiliar as unliving.
…………………………………
Dedicated to Thiruvalluvar(31B.C), the author in Tamil
Translated by S.Kandasamy, MUSIRI, TAMILNADU, INDIA
Published in poetrysoup.com on 13-12-13
THE LIVING EVERYDAY CAN;T SLOW
DOWN TO ENJOY THE UNLIVING THAT
JUST WISHED FOR A SECOND CHANCE.
SPECIAL LIVING TAKING THEIR HEARTS;
TO HELP THE ONE'S LEFT BEHIND.
THE SAYING IS YOU HAVE TO HIT BOTTOM ;
TO START CLAMING BACK UP .
LIFE IS THE PATH WE DECIDE TO TAKE;
LOOK AWAY OR REACH OUT A HAND ;
HOW IS TAKING ; STEALING;LIFE LIKE;
NOTHING WRONG?WAR; KILLING;
WOW.... WHAT A FURTURE FOR THE CHILDREN.
CHILDREN LIVING ; UNLIVING WHAT A WAY
FOR THE FUTURE.
Down among the deadmen rise
a fiend of pitch and crimson eyes
it burns in rage and pained hunger
it walks although it breathes no longer
it is a Thing from Not, a thing that shouldn't be
but yet it lives in unliving, undead agony
Upon dead root and spoiled, rotted earth
a thing that died before its birth
no soul, no life, just endless hate
it walks this dirt when the day is late
it comes for ruin and darkest wrath
passing through the gravestoned path
For too many years
I have not lived with any passion
I have smelled nothing, not a single flower,
I have not heard the summer bird call out to his mate
Nor enjoyed one single note of her reply
How does the hour slip by so fast?
These three years of unliving, I have known intimately
only fear and doubt as constant companions
Weary, I am the aching bones of my former self
a dried husk, papery, abandoned
Banished from me all traces of warmth
winter walks constant by my side
the wraiths of love's memory vanishing before my every step
dissipate as breath into frosty air
What use have I,
for these eyes that do not see the beauty spread before me
In the glut of spring
I wither and fade
left to await the day
I too will become
spirit torn from flesh
flesh pulled from bone
and parted before me
the veil of Illusion
as I step through.......
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