Tag: pain
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A rondeau for the ostracised
Find me outside the temple gates on littered streets Where beggars roam and hawkers sell their rancid meats Where lepers and malingerers don’t have a chance At ever swaying to the beat of Triumph’s dance Where you’ll find rickety, old huts with threadbare sheets. Here succubi know men, and the unclean beast eats Here thrones […]
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If life has meaning
If life has meaning, then do tell me what it is – Do whispers of distress become a din of ache Or do we wait in sorrow for unending bliss? I’ve walked beside these broken tracks, I’ve heard the hiss Of rusty trains. I’ve attended regret’s long wake If life has meaning, then do tell […]
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The house we called home
The old house with its towering red gates, two garages and imposing cornices remembers the patriarch’s fists and seething rage more than the timid woman and the wimpy child do. After all, he did shatter its mirrors, break its tables and chairs and stab its walls. The mansion with its lawn and pink bougainvillaeas running […]
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A sonnet of hope
Place me in an age where the skies blushand epochs of forgiveness scent the airwith their sweet smell making the fields lushwhile the lilies dance to answered prayer Solomon’s perception on the throneand stilling our forever-warring hearts,defeating hate and holding back the stone,announcing halcyon days and fresh starts The sky and stars eternally transformedand nature’s […]
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