The intrinsic value of the works stems not from the traces of dried ink but rather who wielded the quill
Poetry Drafts
You sneezed and trees in fair Olympia
Awoke the god of gods from deepest sleep
In toppling turmoil rose and kissed your cheeks
As if a wind of change had come to greet
The dawn of dawns of Time and Sorrow gone.
Like liquid core about to crack the earth
Spew forth a golden storm of hate and hurt
Untempered torrents swept the land of Man
Like plague and famine both in search of leaves
My pen delined them all in greyest grey
But barely shivers felt or whispers heard
Among the living dead on this scorched Earth
The dawn of dawns beyond all comprehend.
My past has no shadows, as shadows need light to live. Life is a dance between light and night and the darkness of days. My present has shadows, but no dance of happiness or merriment of being a worldly presence. My future is unrefined, undefined as the sun may never rise above the horizon of maybes and likelihood of a waltz.
Dots on the horizon, like deliberately bestrewn breadcrumbs in a dusty fairytale, become my path as I hobble through the loveless land. Broken benches snickers as I sail past on windless days. I chew and chew and chew on every golden dot, seeking sustenance in place of salvation; alas, every gilded moth succumb to the snakeโs salivation โ an offering made of glue to the fools following the crumbs in the stories of old.