VARIOUS DEGREES

LIFE'S JOURNEY

 

 

Hidden behind the glossy slick smile,

The tender lines of a fraudulent smile

Lies

Frustration, fear, and just plain old worry

Many times have the call for strength come

But, just for once chaos would feel like the norm

Torn in two between the selfish and the rational

Whom shall win this victory?

Thinking in an abstract mode, crossing life spans

Entering into strange encampments

Letting time fly

Imagining propelling thought elsewhere...

Floating moving through faces as if at sea

Becoming a tsunami suddenly dashing and

Killing all hope of HOPE

Masking the realization

With erratic hand gestures

Questioning eyes, close-fisted body movements

Listening without speaking

Meditate out of this stasis

Fully open the third eye to bring me

Comfort...

Blanket me with solace

BABy(c)2011

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

A amazing poem. Each of us must fight to keep our sanity and stay on the right road. Many things will take us to the negative and hard to see the light when surrounded by black. I like how you told the story in the poem. A strong ending to a excellent poem.
Coyote

[Rikkevi Rue]

Ah so true that from the innermost self may come solace in the wake of the external storm, that from the depths of the minds pain the truest redemption can be conceived, lips may mouth the abstraction of conceit, expressions mock the ploys of artificial happiness but deep in the heart of ones inner sanctum ones deepest self always knows...to retreat from the confusion into the future is to admit apparent defeat, yet to discern and glean the nature of life's counter-creations and turn them back against life to conquer is indeed the essence of the game! Your writing wields the bracing jolt of reality to impact the reader. Divine!