too soon

a single Amaryllis bulb

into my Christmas gift did bump

like devotion to Christ

i, on time, with care did plant

blood-red flowers soon did bloom

delighting my heart

prompting fingers to photo-shoot

like fancying a young bride

too soon the wisdom of the astute

did knock on my door, my head

dollars in night dreams too fade

on waking like my drooped floret

© henry victor         12.02.2018

cross roads!

you summoned me to serve

but i strive for success

you called me to work

but i vouch to win

you challenged me to crucify my ego

but i attempt to prolong my years

you beckoned me to be hopeful

but i venture to multiply my happiness

you christened me to quest for powerlessness

but i pile up power for many lives

you made me to love the other

but i dare to loot

you expected me to live your will

but i pray to impose mine

© henry victor     30.12.2003

sun-light

 

sun-light strong and bright

piercingly penetrating

into my infrequently used office

ground filled with snow

and sure, soon it will go

tree empty of leaf

and sure, soon it will grow

pessimistic thoughts and cynical concerns

creeping into mind

like the uninvited noisy sparrows

they, sure, will fly away

my blindness

my inability

to see the snow melting

cause of my weariness

sun-light strong and bright

piercingly penetrating

into my infrequently used office

© henry victor     04.02.2003

snow melting

 

sun-light strong and bright

piercingly penetrating

into my infrequently used office

down below people looking

for profit so cheaper

my silence disturbing

to seek or not to seek

your assistance

i need assistance to resolve

ground filled with snow

and sure, soon it will go

tree empty of leaf

and sure, soon it will grow

thoughts and concerns creeping

into my mind only to fly away

like those noisy sparrows

not sure what i want

menacing money, or an easy employment

with money in plentitude

sometimes, may be most of the time

strong yearning to go

away and be no more

a sense of betrayal, a sense of failure

sense of helplessness

and a sense of emptiness

strong senses silently pervading

ruling heart

and guiding mind

hostility, and enduring consciously

consistent hostility, cause

my weariness and a loss of heart

happenings contrary to my likings

and events to others taste

leading to disappointments

my blindness and my inability

to see snow melting

cause of my weariness

sun-light strong and bright

piercingly penetrating

into my infrequently used office

© henry victor     04.02.2003

not normal

if not to look at a floating cloud on the sky

or the face of the water in the river
flowing both within and around me
can be considered a normal human

then, sure, i am abnormal to be shunned

and, soon, taken in for incarceration
in that asylum as incapable of living
a normal life except to sign my last will

while the river with all the uploaded urban

sewage flood into the ocean to poison
maim and soon kill the source of cloud
and the living dead enthroned as normal
 
19.05.2014