Resolution

In spite of all my struggles

My agitation for better days

I find myself worthy

And lucky to be something alive

Just today I saw someone die

I watched life coming to nothing

And what a family I saw cry

A beloved gone and forever gone

After a while I made a resolve

To live and die for the one I love

To meditate and search my soul

I wish peace on the day I die

Supremacy

Under the cover of pitch darkness

Siting at the helm of corrupt power

The affluent drug baron swings on a hydraulic seat

Propitiously, he calls the shots down the dusty streets

Where the impressionable junkies bow down in submission

And fan his regal brow, with their hard-earned currency

Moving in tatters floating in the violent wind

And defrauded by an impudent boss

The peddlers’ pay is hardly enough

Bossy and a perpetrator of the deepening chasm

He sees to it that the indolent can barely scrounge

To pay their bills at spasmodic intervals

And still, keep a tab on the nemesis force.

Gone

Fifteen years now I’ve waited

Hoping you’ll someday return

I’ve drawn you pictures and beautiful portraits

Hoping to impress you when you knock again

But seeing that tombstone every morning

And the fact that it has your name on it

I suddenly come to terms with my grave loss—

Indeed you’re gone.

For Someone Special. . . .

For you I take this pen into my fingers

I now take some precious time off my errands

To let you into my private thoughts

For purpose fate crossed our paths

And when I stared deep into your big bright eyes

I resolved you’re the one I’d love

For better for worse eight years done

But in your heart is where I still want to belong

With every thought of you; of us together.

Armageddon

When time comes of age

Every heart will stop and break

Earthly kingdoms will crumble to ashes

And from continent to continent

The magic of alliances will evaporate into a memory

When time comes of age

Skyscrapers will be swallowed by the greedy earth

Affiliations will then mean nothing

As we’ll all be brought at par

By death—

The indiscriminate equalizer