Flight from Reality
Alcohol, wine bottles
Hash, pot, marijuana
Cocaine, coke, cracks
Amphetamines, hallucinogens
Ecstasy, doping pills
And others to sniff and inhale.
These and more are accessories
To the flight to the dazzling unknown
And yet making the passengers
Very difficult to safely return home.
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Hello, Tree!
What makes you
stand erect and content,
silent and majestic,
undisturbed by the noise of time?
Why do birds find
you their home, the safe
haven to build their nests
and lay their eggs?
Why do you stand there
erect and content,
silent and majestic,
bathed by sunshine and rain?
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Devoured Spring
Like cotton candy flakes
they fall on the ground
white and stiff as sand.
In few minutes they turn
the streets and fields
into a silent sea of ice.
Passengers are stranded
Drivers fear to glide
Buses and cars collide.
Why is this long winter
devouring the great
colors of sunny spring?
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Pain, Sign of Human Mortality
Pain pulsates
as the clock tick tocks
Should pain be dependent
on medicines?
And what if medicines
cannot appease
the pulsating pain?
When can every one
be freed from
the malady of pain?
Why is pain made
the sign of the coming end?
Why is there pain
to announce
our mortal human frame?
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Love
It is abstract
but has her face
in the hands that touch with compassion
in the eyes that seek only the face of the beloved
in the words uttered, seeking only to uplift
and not humiliate,
in complete giving
without expecting to receive,
in laying down one`s life
so that the beloved may live.
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In Every Woman, A Diana
In every woman is a river of love
that flows to all lands
that feels, that comforts and understands.
In every woman is a sea of pain
when rejected, when unwanted
by those whom she commits to live with.
In every woman is a dark cloud
of uncertainty of one`s identity
projected in many mysterious ways.
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Burying Her Ashes
Strange!
A person with great height
and weight is now turned
into an urn of ashes.
Down deep into a
little hole of the ground,
she is laid down
without music
and elegance.
Strange!
She, an equation
by contraction
or reduction!
And this life
of great height
and grandeur
is now inside
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Countdown To Surgery: A Prayer
In my dark hours of doubt
and dark moments of fear,
I beseech you, dear Lord,
to grant me courage to be.
In my tears of pain
and sighs of relief
I ask you, Lord,
to hold me by your hand
and let me see your face.
Abide in me
in this glooming sea of darkness
And let me swim
into your shore of hope and peace.
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Feel the Moment
Feel the moment
And be present.
Smell the aroma of the moment
And never show that you are absent.
Feel the moment
The moment of dialogue
The moment of possibilities
The moment of expectation.
The moment of love.
Grab the moment
Treasure it as a priceless jewel
Claim it as a great gift
Hold it as your very own.
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War, War, War!
War, war, war!
Who gives birth to war?
Is it greed for power
that craves for more and more?
Is it the I in you and me
dreaming to be the crowning glory?
War, war, war!
You are often born
around the table of arrogance
and power, wanting only to win
the childish game over
and against the screaming innocents.
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