I ignore if you perceive your existence
Though I am inclined to believe you don’t,
I think I might be the only creature
Mad enough to struggle and ponder
A lifetime on what we are.
Since my earliest days I … CONTINUE READING »
As I wait
As I wait for our encounter I listen
To the rain outside pouring over green
Gardens effusing scents of wet grass
Mimosa orchids roses toxic oleander
Anticipating the feel of your warmth
Reminiscing the bewilderment of my lips
Shivering under … CONTINUE READING »
Unsmoked cigarettes
It’s been a while since I looked at you
Properly paying attention to your traces
Of ancient histories two thousand or twenty
Years of them the same all in the past,
A gone multitude of moments I remember
Bathing in … CONTINUE READING »
Disturbing Peace
Since my infancy I smiled
Mother told me I would light her eyes
Ignoring notions of past and future
I simply was, thrust into existence.
Learnt to walk, talk a language
Concocted by humans to express
Ideas and feelings progress… CONTINUE READING »
She is Light
I’d lie if I said I recalled the first
Time I saw her when she arrived
Indelibly into my existence we were
Girls brought up to be ladies of pride.
Rebellious spirits claiming freedom ruled
By strict parents and Dominican … CONTINUE READING »
Back to when I begin
The room was dark the light bulb broken
Only a flickering red spot suspended
Above a drum-shaped silhouette I discern
A doorless capsule of metal and gold.
A mystic summoning lure and my curiosity
Possess my pace and steps I … CONTINUE READING »
Capable of violence
The man lied on white linen
Immaculate sheets of a hospital bed,
Swollen eyes red scleras
Broken capillaries bruises of violence.
His neck held still his body covered
He had been beaten to near death,
Afore his wife struck to … CONTINUE READING »
Misbehaviour
When I look at people I search
For traces of their essence a glimpse
Of their spirit passions and fuels
I strive to see beyond
Earthly qualities and flaws.
To my defeat I must confess I fall
Into a trap … CONTINUE READING »
Commodore
I dawdled idly down the dock at cockcrow
When my attention was captured by the howls
of an imposing man mustering a frantic crew
from above the decks of an entrancing vessel,
Navy blue body white spotless sails
A masthead … CONTINUE READING »
Shame
All animals by nature seek
A lair a shelter from threats to existence
Inclement climate and stronger predators
Ineluctably induce fearful creatures to hide,
Only wandering the lands when in need
Of nourishment and lovers to procreate allow
Species to … CONTINUE READING »