Frustration
Frustration
Juddering gears drive our desires
In grinding whines, shuddering halts
Engineers with an eye on the clock
Forgot to grease the intricate machine,
Fumbled and dented the cogs.
If the mechanism was frictionless,
If we experienced a slow silent
Engine powering all our hopes,
They would not be what we want;
desires are meant to be demanding,
To bring out the best of us.
Electric
electric
Zapped in the moment,
an alternating undercurrent
of heart stopping potential.
The sudden wild presence
of buzzing will power
and passionate attitude
switched on, fully alive.
Change the World
Two
steps change the world:
Take any interaction
Make it a conversation.
Repeat
Until every moment
Is a wild dialogue
About what must be.
Then
End each discussion
With agreement
To act, to chatter
More.
Vertigo
Heady, delirious, dizzing and heady. The edge of danger and a grasping hand. A spinning overload of sensation. Our hero studies the mysterious, yet familiar visage. Don't look down. vapours, trembles and rush. Towering withering heights, a new horizon, hard ground. Elation, her face absorbing attention, depths of beauty form a swirling enigma. High at risk. Don't look. Unafraid of the fall. Questing like an knight errant, a cool elegant damsel without distress, her little black dress, erring as hero again. An all too attainable height, the steady step up and the clammy terror of the will to fall. Don't.
Pandora
Pandora
She opened the little box marked Bold.
At first there was only silence, breezes,
A comfortable emptiness
The fearful expectation began to subside
Then whispers: potential, opportunity, hope.
A compliment became a loud cry of praise
Rushing out before she could close the lid
Came all manner of dragons and demons
Banging, shouting, demanding attention.
Her future was out and wasn't going back.
Pandora: wild
Pandora: wild
growth came quickly from that open box
tendrils grew as garlands in her hair
her concentration revealed a smile
she ran, darting into the new jungle
untroubled as clothes tore in her dash
her careful image crumbled by nature
barefoot she ran, shoes lost in a vine
a flower opened behind her ear
straight lines yielded to erratic curves
skipping over branches she moved deeper
in this lush profusion was a goal
her growing laughter echoing around
a blue pond sprang up, depth unknown
New confidence danced at the edge
lost in the tropical canopy of palms
Slipping off the last shreds of the old
the water nymph dived in headfirst
