makeshift hell

catastrophes

no end to catastrophes

starvation and hunger

obesity and heart attacks

HIV and Aids

train wrecks and plane crashes

shuttle disasters and forest fires

floods and earth-slips

volcanoes and earthquakes

cyclones, tornados and avalanches

wrecked school buses and shattered bus stations

auto collisions on road with pools of blood

and corpses scattered

jailbreaks and lay-offs

Bhopal and Chernobyl

strikes and picket lines

riots, shooting, and killings

murder and robbery

cheating and daylight fraud

war and invasions

marginalizing and alienating

hijacking, kidnapping and extortions

pseudo compromises

and religious hypocrisies

these in the world: the makeshift hell

© henry victor     03.07.2003

living styles

living is, from others, much stealing

continuously, freely, gulping

as a mosquito sucking the blood

from a self that has labored so hard

greater living is also stealing

constantly, on beautiful, buzzing

as the bee sucking the sweet honey

while, also carrying the pollen to serve

greatest living is letting to steal

continually giving all to all

like the mother earth holding not back

for self, or looking for some return

© henry victor     03.07.2003

hope in change

change is at my door step

i must welcome her
old lady who occupied my main floor
is leaving my home

i must let her go

with her there in my upstairs
was much whining
and i had no time

to relax, or

take care of my sugar level
and my old dreams were
frequently nightmarish

while my sleep was shallow

and my stomach half empty
making me a dog
walking with no purpose

change is likely to clean up

mess the old woman left behind
scrubbing floor and countertops
before thinking of a new menu

and a new venue

for dancing and singing
driving further away my baggage
burden of bygone days and nights

© henry victor

preferring blindness

since my contract with my last

employer was over, my misery

frequently slipped below

the freezing point

going further down

when eyes within my heart

fell on what she enjoyed

since she sneaked out

from my bed room

to sleep with another

prompting me now, pray for, prefer

blindness in my faculty to feel

© henry victor

two sides

to escape the cost, the pain

i sought the one sided coin

with which i could buy a ticket

for that sailing across my void

a journey from cradle to an empty pit;

generous compassion, i thought

i should transact to live my todays

dodging the travails of yesterdays

but purer the compassion more pain

was on the other side making gain

repeating that Nazarethean likeness

etching in soul, advanced with soreness

© henry victor

human genius

gigantic mountains, hills

boulders and rocks

rock-solid and impenetrable!

yet, the human genius, the soft

diamond cuts through to create

a path to eternity

© henry victor        01.06.2017

dance with peace

alone i stand short like that smashed glass

ready to be scattered, to be interred inside

a grave yard with my brokenness

in body, mind, soul, and human ties

but with full of sap, that thick and thin

life affirming and life giving spirit alive

with masks thick and thin discarded

for dance naked with no dress rehearsal

to continue into eternity, a land

absent of ego and confusions

with love reigning and love raining

continuously i shall dance with peace

© henry victor     12.03.2012

soaked in silence

she is either deaf

to hear that loud pulse

caused by my faltering heart

or, is extremely venomous

to sting with a single word

‘drama’, that made me dumb

to speak another word

like a father to daughter

but grace from above

or, from deep within

made me enjoy with ease

that silence above clouds

floating to and fro

aimlessly as a bitch in heat

while stillness from beyond

filled my heart with peace

© henry victor            18.04.2012