nostalgia

Nostalgia,
you make my yesterdays glow
come paint my today with your colours.

youth nor childhood match
your glorious sepia tint.

i want to be beautiful again,

i want to feel whole again.

spread yourself and cover

all of me and mine.

important conversations

the corporate office of the mind
in its innumerable cubicles
is busy in furious page turning
to find a conversation starter,
any conversation starter,
now that the filter of appropriateness 
has been set aside.

every page that makes it
out of the tattered files
that are our lives,
and their most recent, 
even if the most mundane memory -
'REJECTED'.
"it does not seem right" 
"it won't work."
"too risky" -
too much reasoning, same result;
too much thought, same action.

rejected conversations.
dejected conversations.
unsaid conversations.
dead conversations.
it is safe to shut down the office.
the work has been outsourced
to silence.

sophistication

just look at the rustic shambles of your life.
for god's sake.
of course they laugh at you when you talk of spending your day sitting alone humming a tune.
of course they scoff at you for not being like them, and what's worse - not even wanting to be like them.
your world - its the stuff of nostalgia. things one talks about, not lives out.
yes yes, they did say 'keep it simple'; but simplicity, my dear, is fashion speak.
really now. didn't they teach you anything?

wayfarer

a bus overflowing with known faces
on a deserted road.
trippin' through life.

rebellion

hush. stay quiet.
it is not time for you yet.
they must not know.
wait. for the signal.
until then,
seethe, but lie low.

heartbeat

my precious,
may every day
be your day.
as it is for me
may it be, for you.
a life lived
in the span of a heartbeat.

follow me

follow me.
ask no questions.
close your eyes, 
hold out your hand -
feel the breeze 
and walk on.
when all becomes still
know that it is time. 
let your hand fall,
open your eyes
to your destination.
don't look for me,
i wont be there.
breathe in the quiet
live out the solitude.
it is well earned.