Day 197 - Two Dimensional

Life hangs in the balance of a blue sky
That has no way of mentioning that
What in the end should catch the eye
Is something simple and flat
That two-dimensions can catch it all
If you are willing to heed such a call

The image of a weeping child so lost
The words on the pages of a novel
The pieces of paper representing a cost
The eternal ability of these things to pull
In a powerful, yet simple way
The things it does not take lips to say

Each of us lay flattened against a screen
As vibrant as a green leaf and stem
With many a message to prune and preen
Before we are willing to invite the rest of them
Those who threaten us or so we think
Fully into our lives all the better they sink

Day 38 - Drawn to Die

Drawn to Die

I live a simple quiet existence

Not much of it calls for persistence

I am silent and all-seeing

I need no words to describe my being

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She lives without much to say

Or so I assume anyway

After all if she was meant to speak

I would have given her a mouth between each cheek

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If I tried to express who I am

You would only consider me a lamb

I would rather you took me for sharp

Than for the hands on the harp

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Her existence is quiet, barely there

Yet formed with the utmost care

Surrounded by messengers she dare not lead

Her honesty is far too difficult to read

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I do not know what it is that I should state

Except that soon I shall bide farewell and dissipate

Scrubbing away all that I knew with a few strokes of pink

I have no true meaning or so the artist tends to think

Day 33 - The End of the World as We Know It

Who is the vision?

What is the source?

What is the decision?

Who inspires the verse?

In a world where each moment enlightens..

What do you declare as the world brightens?

There are the dancers high up above

There the embracers so much in love

There is the dreamer gazing to the sky

And the one who will see eye to eye

Here is the message we share with all the rest

There the truth that we may pass the test

And finally the wisdom of all the sages

The truth we find throughout the ages

It weaves through every generation

It is the voice of an entire nation

But then again so are we

It is our lives that you now see