Gentle, meek and mild

Gentle meek and mild I see

Yet cannot be what I wish

My fallen eyebrows to raise

When need be

At Julian's wedding

It was the moment I saw something different

The palms hit hard the skin of the small drums

And will not let loose their spleen on man

but on the poor ear their throbbing throbbing

when the bald head sweat another hand wipes it

because the happy honey waist is giggled in gladness

when the hand leaps up, handkerchiefs in the air will shake

bidding goodbye to bachelorhood and spinsterhood

where is he alogo alogo to have here the boboobo

it will soon be their first night

around they will go, around the fountain

from which came this noisy grease

which has set in motion their heavy sides and lips

tiredness is forgotten when cares are shaken off

but only for a while will this last

when music goes off

allowing the real music selected by the couples

to dance as long as they please

their whole life time

dance well my brother the boboobo just ended

dance to the tune you’ve selected

the arena, and the floor stand deserted

dance in glee around the familiar places

don’t be confounded when you discover something new

dance on my brother, dance it off

the outside music might end

yet hear the one within and dance on

if even her music fails, focus on yours and dance on

alone, till yours end

A jump to grab a ray

How beautiful, 

Do you see it?

I don’t

Just a jump will grab it

Before the flickering rays will pass

Child stop

Just before it passes

On my chest it shows

Its brightness in glow

Jump with me before its passing

Wait a moment

Today I wait not a pass

  

Stop!

Don’t!

Child no!

‘Wait for me’

his friend  echoes behind him

in the air arms stretched

to grab the rays

his fingers opened

his pass through the light

into the valley fell

Aaah !

No! No!

No child!

Following the echo till was no more

If only…

When you are far from me

And the birds are singing

My wish you hear

You to cheer

If only you know

When the butterflies

Kisses the petals bright

My wish to kiss you I do

If only you know   

What great mountain huge

Mountain full of love

Has mounted from my heart all for you

If only you know

What you have cultivated in me

What your patience these years

An endless love has grown

If only you know

Know how much I feel

Feelings turned into words I know now

Just to say I love

Soaked with the fragrance from the garden

I soaked myself daily

In the fragrance from the garden

Waiting his gentle latter rains

On or vows to shower

Our pure and spotless lily

Its flowers to nourish

So that at the time of picking and pecking

More than a hand full of smiles

Will us cover and bind

Along the short lived painful journey

After I say I do, I love you

Before the pleasures forevermore

You alone and all that I’ll do with you

When will day break come?

When will daybreak come?

The smoky sky is gone

From where the shinning glory went

Along with the setting sun.

The muddy smelling breezes come

Scattering unclear shadows below

I see failure rise high into the sky

How did flesh and blood do it

Have failed generations gone

With what they left behind

Even those unborn and yet to come

The single mother earth

Still carries in her arms after her delivery

Tired and worn out, her day old twin

Grazing cattle on bare earth

Burning off industrial waste

Whereas above, the smoky sky goes

To join the setting sun

Eyes will close and not blink

At the rot left on top of you

Flies breeding, feet walking

Air blowing you cannot breathe

Where they lie scattered as a heap

On the their lips they pipe it out

From organs darker than the smoke out

The smoky sky goes

Along with its setting sun

When will daybreak come?

Many are her stale born

Nurtured in her womb

Many, her pain and aches

Now this sighing and mourning

Unconcerned, we looked and watched

What our hands and voice could change

Till into the skies it went

In thick smoke with the sun to set

When will daybreak come?

Flowing streams turn quick sand

Their visiting birds can no more fish but perch

And feel the cool fresh breeze

On the once an arable land turned desert

With stinking waste harmful to our health

Here the scraps lay along your banks, oh mother

Once a beautiful bank where the people stood

Now in scattered shadows

live it full

Live it full like all you have

Your last day with your love one

And all that passes and blows

Matters not, only this one

This friendship of old

That has come to stay

Live it full like today

All you have

What will the heavens do?

I wore the cloak of disbelieve

I denied the pass of a tear

I did sleep unprotected

I am awake

It’s gone …

All gone 

Oh what will the heavens do?

Nothing but watch

As if powerless

When you allow things preventable to pass

THIS MAD MAN IS MY FRIEND

He took a step at a breath

one before the other

like one having a sore under feet

He wore an old shoe

bigger than his foot
ready to go off at a step

He almost covered his hair

like one from the Tuareg

And from his eyes 
that light winked at me

I know he remembered me

but will not talk when I approached him

I know he knew me

but lost in speech and thoughts

I know he knew me

we used to play in our youth

and roamed these streets

Now a stranger to it

Oh, this madman is my friend