Friday, January 13, 2017

Sacrifice

Some bad poetry
Between you and me
My dumping ground
Fault lines
Agape with futility.

We live and we learn
(Or do we?),
It's playback time
When we care to earn
The will o' the wisp
Wisdom passing by.

No age is just a number
When progression
Is Linear entropic
When your number comes up
It just does
You in.
You died.
And that is why
We lived.
Reason enough
For a series
Of tete a tete
Life dialogues
Coffeehouse conversations
Diabolical.
 
So much love
To live
(Or To die for),
Eighty odd years
Are not enough
All those hard earned
Life lessons
Those ample tears
Amorous moments
When spirit kneeling
Kisses reeling soul.
Healing All
Of me that dwells
In chimerical memories.

The hardest labor
Of love
Is Death
Life presents
Us only this
Term insurance.

I guess I will
Never ever get it.
Why I write
the way I do

Why eyes closed in the dark
Lights a brilliant hue, blue
Fire light in the mind
Why mornings dwell
In the chill of future
While evening creeps up
Like a lusty lover
From behind.

There now
My dumpster
Is full-on target
emptied on you
Take what you will.
Take me as I am...
Or as you will.

I call it poetry
For lack of better words
Sacrificing Art,
To describe
The beauty
Of my despair.

(c) Amrita Valan 2016

The One

You're the one.
I love having fun with you.
Matching my espresso to
Your cappuccino.
You're no longer
The one.
In my fun zone.
Serious stuff.
Life makes me laugh.
How it turns me on
Thumbs up
Here you are
YOU are the one.
You flip yours down.
No more babes.
Our time
Has come and gone.

So I am following you
Down the boulevard
Of not meant-to-be
Your hair like a steely
Helmet
A warrior's walk
You know your way
But I just lost mine again
Following you
Down yesterday's bylanes.

You are not the one
There's no one.
Who can match
Let me start again
From scratch.

Tearless fearless
No regrets
Je suis contente
I'm the One.

(c) Amrita Valan 2016