Wishing You Well

Like the desert accompanying a hearty meal

I came late but to linger on
little but sweetest
To wish you well
Not like the others...
Not to say farewell
 
Moments well spent
are purposes well served
Forever in bold memories
I shall them carry on
Though short the moments
Still best the effect
 
You’ll miss and will be missed
Your place they will take
but never you replace
If not in this exiting space
 
Ahead lies many more
Only the legs that fit into the shoes
Can say it well how it has been
How dark how hot how soft
 
Like a fragrance tossed in the open air
Many felt your sweetest savour
And in the heart of the silent many
Your flowers bloom even on desert dunes
 
I shall not say farewell
but wish you well
today if it is you
tomorrow will be who? 

I shall never say farewell

but always wish you well

Specially for Ms. Davis

Read on her last day at work:

1/25/2024

Death is Life

We live in spaces

We leave one space into another

When it ends in one space

It begins in another space

Life never ends, always in motion

And there is no death, but life

Life in another form, in another space

Life is coming

Life is going

Life is meeting

Just as we met them when we came

Others will meet us when they come

And so shall it be when we go

 

Smile Of Hope

Smiles like whispers thin

beam on a radiant face

Clouds like mountains 

slowly they penetrate

Words like fertile tiny seeds 

sprout out great oaks of hope

Assurance like indelible signs

the dark clouds soon to roll 

kokrokoo kokrokoo

Kokrokoo Kokrokoo

Waring men in a chase fright 

Poor cockrel in a hasty flight

Sacred abode of the visible noon 

Desecrated below the unseen moon 

Short the sleep of the elders lived

Gone the peace of the green land out

The feathery throat when slashed cried out loud 

A wholesome meal prepared to appease

The raging elders provoked to awake

A restoration of exceeding peace

Kokrokoo Kokrokoo

Three parts the virgin night is divided

The fragile silence soon to be broken

The tired ancient ones to begin

The steps towards their home way

The strong bones of the happy tribe arrayed

Their huts and shelters awake

Three times their unblemished praise

Three times ascend to their mighty maker

Giving way for his sun's rays

Driving away the feared dark

Home is where Mama lives!

 
Away from home
With thoughts at home

Away from home
With this yearn for home
Come home she said, come home!
Home is where mama lives
 
She lives there who greets with a smile
Old she is who needs my stronger hold
Gave for nothing in return
Her need for your want
There she looked at you 

Like one from a faraway journey
And lips blessed deeds
Come home she said, Come home!
 
It was heard through the window 

Her voice from another continent
In winter night an angry wind 

Pierces through an icy hand
Unheard cries, borrowed friends, 

On your own and far away from home.
Come home she said, come home!
She never knew he came 

The moment she bid him come
 
Yesterday he was at home
Because he met her first hug
She is calling him home, calling him
But she doesn’t know he is not home
She is calling me home, calling me
Louder than before the cry that was heard 

In the mind in an enclosed door  
Where letters and calls him carried 

But not to lie at her side
 
Yesterday he was at home
You treated him like one of your own
He longed for home away from home
Come home she said, come home
Home is where mama lives…

She is at home: you are home.

The Ground Will Rejoice In Our Sorrow

 

So feared, awesome and mighty

You keep coming and coming

And never tired

Never to spare any for a penny

 

Death, yes it was you

You took away the dear loss

Not that accident or that illness

 

You come to take that tired part of us

From where it was placed

Because earth, its owner still cried for it

Earth will rejoice in our sorrow

When eyes wet with cries

 

The smell of flesh

Fresh

Covered in casket

In suit

I know not if I will carry

Or once more let it tarry

 

I will never say good bye

Because you still live

Even in my dreams

Where I always pass you by

 

© Leander David (5/2/2022)

Pending funeral of my Dad

Bitter buds sweeter when it flowers

All gaily the sparrows on the tall tree high

train not to sing their choruses in the morn

An ensemble which only surges ahead by day

not knowing where their prey may be

will harvest where they have not tilled

Like flower lilies bereft of cozy costumes

pretty appears when always in bloom

In splendor, magnificence and grandeur

be wields the eye leaving it in esthetic glory

with buds bitter to taste, sweeter when it flowers    

Dedicated to TA Deborah

Time To Pause And Reflect

Yet another time to pause

and enter into reflections

How it has all happened

Following your thoughts not on him

as if all that matters was Him;

And Him who allows all things

will allow what you don’t think.

IT WILL PASS YOU BY

Round and round the circus goes

Laden with a composite spill: innocent blood

He is not death

But the trumpet that precedes it

From Asia and Europe

Among the sons and daughters of the sun at last

Like rumors now reality

Legs and hearts breathe their last

And can save no vaccine no cure

The brave men hide

The wise men run

The weak wonders how to survive

Just a cough, a handshake

Just a sneeze, a spit

That contact, that fluid exchange

Prices high, schools close down

Everything moving to a stand still

… The circus still goes

Innocent blood falling down

Stay calm

And do the right

You’ll finally find

It passing you by

Leander David ©2020

Onions close to the eyes

Burning desires which left painful ashes

Have been sprinkled on my tongue to lick

Bitter than gall what appealed to the nose

Which in a sneeze was forced out

And filled full the wind pipe

Oh now what winds followed these painful actions

Opened eyes which will acclaim others and not me

Goodbye said and well said

Should not be like onions close to the eye

If the heart speaks

If the heart speaks

The mind will follow

My heart spoke

Years before her heart spoke

Is there anything a man of honour shouldn't have?

Your love, my home

Beyond the white and green

Flowers bloom on the shelf

The red romantic candles

And the delicately painted

White sticks I see

Is what has made me whole

What has made this house mine

Your love, my home

What love is hate that loves

What love is hate that loves

That leaves the rest for you

Abandoned so early so shocking to be true

Hopes rely on that which is so thin

Can break that which is so precious

when abandoned, feeling sadder than horror movies

waiting for love in silence

not a word to send you away

will love come when I am gone

would I find love when away

closed lips and minds harboring a noisy confusion

ready to explode a single pierce

love for man blinds the mind

links the classes, races emerge in

love for man if not to the end

worse than before it began a rebirth of class and race

whom to tell that gall so bitter

no one to trust not even friends

seeing yourself wasting away slowly like a landslide

slowly your whole world you’ll see unfold

At my sick bed, at my side

At 70, weaker in strength

Duller in memory than I

She has done it

Over and over again

And now feels no pain

She has done it

What she has ever protected

her gain

In silent whispers

In the echoes of the present

You are all I have,

don’t put me to shame

They will laugh at us,

just put a little in your mouth

At the entrance of my life still calling

Fight on “Brother”

Fight for that life

I am out now

thinking...

I heard a shout

not a cry

We might be bruised
yet standing,

ever fallen

but up,

heart still within

for all,

eyes still gazing

at the goal.

No man can stop

but us delay.

Thank you my own

On this mystical path I am blessed

but you, my own, who will have

when i think of it?

The thoughts of you around 

that you will be there

frees me from acts of shame and sham

from crime and eternal cries

For all timely support

through thick and thin

you tack me in night and bright 

like the early morning dew on the tendrils

before the damsels awake to fetch water 

from the wells and oases to nurture

You bless my countenance fallen

like you have always done

ever faithful ever assured

even when I was a stranger

now your love

your own

... thank you my own.

© Emperor Leander David

Dedicated to Proph 25.6.2019

Love unconditional is perpetual. It will only seek to make happy, better and protect not possess.

                                                 

Without the people there is no family. Every member matters even the little ones. Never destroy any member of the family. When you hurt a member it is really wise to say sorry and even when a member refuses to apologize, know that it is always greater to forgive.

When you see many mass up against you, know you have in possession something of great worth they all want. Let not your heart fear. Don't let go.

The planting time might be over because fruits are showing but it's not over until you taste the yearning fruit. Stay your guard.