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Open Poetry #43

I want ...

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2008-12-14 01:13 PM

I only want the real and unreal,
four roses not more at my front door,
and the ribbons and bows of eternity
around and about the all/everything.

Not an outrageous request, not at all,
in the scope of time’s unlimited stretch
but I’m of a type destined to die
and not ever to be as I once was.

It’s the now ‘me’ who wants everything/all
but the less for sure can fill up my space
and lounge in a chair, drink, eat, be merry,
and flow like the wind in and then out.

And the one who is now destined to die
most grateful indeed for the less/lesser/least
for it’s known on the downhill there has to be
a pause in the middle for re-assessment.

But time lengthens the pause, extends the stops,
and makes the journey stretch till I’m dead
but really the roses, the real and unreal,
can stand at my door for a moment or more …
if not for the idle, the lethargic and lazy,
true essential essence of man.

‘tis the spirit, you see, unwilling to be
a dictator to self and a delivery man
but I won’t open doors to anything less
in the time of these times I’m privileged to live.

But call out my name without any sound,
three times, three times, to make it seem loud
and wait, just wait, wait till I know
the all/everything has its ribbons and bows!

Helen / 14 December 2008

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now