It’s Your Road & Your Road Alone – Poem

[Shanmugam]

 

[now is forever]

sometimes and tonight

my glas fills with sweet wine

so much i can’t hide

from decline

 

does this truth ever change

and do i get the whole range?

will i still find my way

in the grand wheel of decay 

can i gather true truth

until we subdue

to the meaning of love.

[Bluebird]

Poetry ay... Well here goes nothing

 

to become my self
stretch arms forth into my soul
and tear out the morsel
of heart that
has not yet drowned
in a sea
of culture

speak words that
erupt from me 
in ink
and pixels and 
sound 
and to not apologise for
my authenticity
or my
integrity

i have lived lifetimes
stuck in loops
of purpose
and meaninglessness
felt suffering and
felt nothing
cried
over the
beauty of my name
and wept 
over the beauty
of the world

i have laughed in the face
of chaos
and 
order

fallen into dens of guilt
and sorrow
my body shaking and retching
in pain
i came out of it stronger
and comfortable with the pain

i have sat alone in rundown flats
and hospital beds
and wild mountain ranges

yet i have only just begun

[now is forever]

5 hours ago, Bluebird said:

speak words that
erupt from me 
in ink
and pixels and 
sound 
and to not apologise for
my authenticity
or my
integrity

magic!