Who counts? Who scores?
Indexes and numbers to measure
Certify happiness amongst us.
Criteria based on production
Monetary wealth, body health,
A game of who owns what,
While life expectancy seeks immortality.
Freedom to make choices, rather
Blue than red, … CONTINUE READING »
Back to basics
Lightning frightens sun-worshiping creatures
Looking at light perceiving a vital warmth
Impossible to tame by grateful impotence.
Striking the forest, smoke and flames
The habitat heats an instinctive escape.
Only curiosity brings the primitive man
To wonder retrace his steps … CONTINUE READING »
Mass Insanity
While a man once said
‘It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world’
Wondering whether he would ever laugh again,
Others claimed it was not madness at all
Affecting the world as a whole,
Rather a psychological condition
A mental disorder, … CONTINUE READING »
A New Home
Searching through space
Wandering humanity
Seeks a new home,
Any safe port to escape
Its announced inevitable fate
As its God reclaims its death,
A primordial right
To an apocalyptic full stop
On the brief sentence of its existence.
Trying … CONTINUE READING »
Glorified warriors
The teacher teaches history
To kids eager to learn.
A long sequence of conquerors and wars
Great empires and kingdoms
With flourishing new ideas
Setting the basis of cultures and creeds
Their legacy exciting stories
To be mixed with nostalgic … CONTINUE READING »
Another successful job
Four moons had passed
Since the crown was bestowed
Upon the enthusiastic new King.
For the occasion he was given
A nice white house
And a brand new arsenal.
After a couple drawbacks
In internal affairs,
He consulted the oracle… CONTINUE READING »
States of matter
Malleable metamorphosis
Eternal cycles
Of enduring substance.
Persistent essence
Evolving mobility
For inviolable properties
Through nature’s ability.
Water shall always be water
Gold forever gold.
Temperatures pressure
Matter into change
Influencing motion
Of atoms, teaming up
To shape the state.… CONTINUE READING »
Energy matter
Energy cooling down
Evolving into matter,
Subatomic particles
Spinning and swirling
In ever expanding
Space.
Forces playing the game.
Through fancies
And laws of attraction
Clouds of dust
Gather together,
In brilliance
To fuse and form
Shining stars
Made of … CONTINUE READING »
Possessions
A small bracelet around the wrist
Your first belonging as eyes disclose
To state who owns you
And which of those giants are yours.
All human beings have parents
But parents are not of all
To each its own.
They … CONTINUE READING »
Glorious Creatures
I was here long before you know
On a timeline made of seconds
That never did nor do exist,
Crossing space a lot further
Than you could ever possibly conceive,
As measures deceive,
Light-years don’t begin to describe
The immensity … CONTINUE READING »