hesitation

i sense within my heart

the lingering fear

of hearing unfavourable comments

and feeling shame of becoming a loser

ending

like a tortoise

in a state of withdrawal

though well protected

but with no progress

towards my goal

a prospect

or that path that may contain

encounters

with vultures

but

much joy at the end

with lots of applause

henry victor     12.07.2010

stoning and snowball throwing

i fled in fear from fellows

who felt might is right

and lost no time

implementing what they considered

exact and precisely accurate

hunting down

and stoning prophets

following their precursors

hesitating not

opposed and maligned Amos

Hosea, Jeremiah, and John the Baptist

now i sit, silently

with more hurt

and no further energy to sprint

among masses with language of right

tinged with democracy

spending moment after moment

networking with similar color

class, creed, similar speech

and a malevolent ‘hi’

with a filthy smile

while dodging liberties

of alternate voices and vision

these enemies

of modern day prophets

playfully fling snowballs

on heralds of peace

more painful

than the earlier stoning

henry victor     18.08.2002

i submit

gentle breeze; can be

windy, rarely cyclonic

i watch and submit

henry victor     13.08.2002

being in love

my love for you, utterly, embraced

the total you, including the new life

bulging, but silently, inside your belly

and ear-rings, your protesting my style!

my love for you bent mine straight

into your heart with a mesmerising energy

submitting mine to your diction, a dictating

i blindly delighted, as if you are my mother!

my love for you painlessly twists my arm

that i neither dream nor truly pack my baggage

to leave my old home, or go out to look

for a spouse, a re-placement for a lost love! 

© henry victor          02.06.2016

age to come

i like Jesus

and later Rumi

Nietzsche and Vincent Van Gogh

belong not to this age

but for the one to come

and if this world

rejects me

am i surprised

© henry victor     31.07.2003