This to CELEBRATE

This!
What we need! Celebration!
Joy, happiness, togetherness, unity
Though some may be strangers!
The collective good, bridges the daily system

Forgotten, colour, creeds, religions and party cards
Remembered and common, that of happiness and bliss

This!
what we need splashed as headlines
grins and laughter recorded mentally!
Hopeful stories as we grow older to toddlers and great grands must be told
of the days of happy!
Where matti met matti and hadn't any worry

This! is how we are now
This! is how we should be!
This! is Guyanese!, This is we!

Past words

I'm humored!
Seriously wondering what happened a few moments ago!

These words are cynical
Raping your ears, cause that how painful they can be!
But, you won’t hear them!

Boiling adjectives ride my mind
Line and line they square in my tongue
BUT! you'll only wish them! cause they'll never happen

You crashed!
Destined to your own confusion
this is for you!, you who thinks that smoke and mirrors save lives!

Funny?! You think? to read before my pen hits the page;
"Dare to be yourself and to be able to express yourself fully!!"
What else must the good Lord say!!

Explode! right! Just have fun...
it's not that easy
that comes with responsibility!

You confuse me! TRUE!!
WHY SHOULD I BOTHER?!

So hear! i sign my name to the end of "HELP!"
Clever...huh!!

My rant!...to YOU!...only to haunt
Every last word..."EAT IT!"

It's all you'll feed on with your bent mind!!

PAST WORDS!!

OPEN, CLOSED

"Open" ; to release that what you feel and that which should be felt
"Close"; to harbour, to keep secret, never to reveal

We've "opened" our mouths but you've "closed" your heart
I used to "close" my mind always finding routes from dead ends
Until i sat and pondered on "who was i really "opened to?!"....not even i can answer that

Our eyes we're "opened" but no tears would fall
because my heart had fallen all too often!
"Closed" to those who can touch it!

Maybe that's why our eyes met!
maybe i needed to "open" your mouth
or you needed to "close" my heart

OPEN, CLOSED, eye and heart
Mouth to heart, let me kiss you!
NO! not with lips, but my words! my sight...
let them kiss your closed heart and mouth...

Maybe i can't handle the raw truth
"Exposure brings disclosure!"
Maybe i want too much information
I'm sure that's the end of my line...

OPEN, CLOSED
I'll shut my mouth, only if you open yours!

Mind Tide

The tide is in
And it’s happening again
Time seems to be escaping me
My thoughts are filling in…

The tide is my time
Slowly receding
I’m washed away into…into wider space
Spaces of you I’ve never imagined…

The tide is mid way
Half out, Half in
Speeding yet subtle moments
My time is almost done…

The tide is out
And it’s happening again
Slowly kissing the horizon
Where will I wash up this time!

Alike are we

In another life…Reincarnated!
WE! Would have been opposites
Swapped! Me you, you me!

Too much of you is me
I’m sure you feel the same
Amidst classes, amidst creeds
We are one and the same

Random?!
NO! more like destiny…
An intelligent guess,
“This, I’m sure is another reoccurrence in your life like mine”

I’ve never kissed myself!
Though I wish I can
Now that I can…I can’t

Repulsion and attraction has never coincided
But we both know our strengths
Synced, and both questioning…
“Why me? Why now? Why ever?”

“Like poles attract”
I guess they never found that out!
Commons agree…
So…”Like minds think alike!!”

I…like…you…
know what…”WE” ought not to think!
Yet, we are one and the same!
So, That means we will think
And satisfy ourselves within mirrors

Unfinished

I wanted to write one more poem
That one that would be set aside from all others
The one that would testify on my behalf, for I am too shy to say myself

I wanted to write one more note
One more for the harmony I possess in my head
That key that would sell my voice that would reach far nations

I wanted her to stay longer
To Linger in her presence again, but this time tell her how much she means to me
With each day, that kiss I gave her would mean more
Replaced by my voice saying…”I Love you!”

I wanted to come home earlier
Straying wasn’t right for me
Bleeding avenues and pitch black streets was all I knew!
But that light was praying for me to see it…

I wanted to see that light…
I did!, but I shunned it…
I Stopped trying to put meaning to this…
These words in stanzas and lines and phrases

I wanted to write one more poem
But I wrote this…
A mix of feelings and jumbled words…

I loved her! I hope she knew
If I had spent a little more time on this tribute
I know you’d love her too…

How i write

With the wind blowing in my face
I took a mental picture outside myself
Sunglasses in the shade
A malt to the right of me,
My pad in the middle

Two phones infront of me to remind me of the world I’m in
A mini briefcase and my galsses case ontop to the left

The questionable look on face
My left hand holding the expired pages from blowing

An upright, sometimes angled pen im my right hand
Going left to right to left to right then further and further down

Flip!
Another page expired, to be received by my left
A often posed mouth, some bitten some pout

I look at the malt still in the bottle
My reflection seems funny…
“This should’ve been Hennessey” I thought

One out stretched left leg drags slowly to the right
To assist my arched, leant back, and angled head

“I look determined”
Determined to get the thought off my mind
To paint it in words, so that others can paint it in memory.

Flip!
Another gone expired…
This will be painted by many with awesome colours

I prefer mono tones!
Black to white
Dark to Light
This is how I write!!

One...to know

It gets harder as the days go by
when the sun no longer kisses the sky
Instead turns shy for the turns gone by!

It gets harder, the unforeseen, the untold
bursting out the seams of my mind.
Hoping you'll forgive and forget when unraveled.

I'm not one for secrets, but i've learnt the unspoken language!
Not intentionally, but because of circumstance
No true substitute that replaces, but unwillingly augments US!!

Stop thinking!
It's no triangle, for it would have to be joined to be!
Instead a tangent, better yet! a parallel to us!

They can never join
But always "meet" side by side
Clones if you may...

Extremely, I am...
We are 2 peas in a pod!!
"Egotistical"
Neither can tell the other to turn back!
"Kindred flesh!"

It's harder to tell the wolves from the sheep
and the sheep from the wolves

All i ask to be sure...
"Grin for me!!...JUST ONCE!!"

Sweet Joy

The sweetest joy is...
facing your fear dead in the face

The Sweetest joy is...
riddling yourself of all things that are not of you!
But clothing yourself with what you truly are!

The sweetest joy is...
smiling back at your enemies and feeling
NO STRIFE!

The sweetest joy is...
Staying true to what you believe in!

The sweetest joy is...
MORE OF IT!

Questions

Why?
Why must i show you the avenue to help you find yourself?

How?
How could you go on, go on without knowing who you are?

Where?
Where is your sense of purpose? Living a lie, escaping the truth!

Who?
Who do you really think you are?! Wasting time lent to you! Barring life parallel to your dismay.

What?
What will be your answer on that day? That day that will be your last...

Expired chances, but the report of an account of your days

Live!
That's all i ask! LIVE!
HIS breath yearns to speak the right
Run! but you cannot hide
HIS spirit yearns to do his WILL!!
Hide! but you cannot run!

That day your knees will buckle and fall
And your mouth will burst open only to answer...

WHY?
HOW?
WHERE?
WHO?
WHAT?