surrendering to defeat

hundred thoughts

through my head flow

like a fast flowing flood

one banging the other

with a hard negation

others modifying another

and none static

as an unmovable boulder

my anchors float

and the deck is scattered

shifting with speed

i drift directionless

searching

for strength deep within

questing

for help from far beyond

silently

i wail, whine

and weep

aloud

but nothing happens

except my drowning

deep

in the deepest waters

dragged into the mire

and unable to put my foot

on solid ground

i yell, i fight

and i fear

accepting my defeat

surrendering

to shame and blame

that wounds

henry victor    12.06.2010

escapee

 

you were just a few months old

when we bought a dozen of budgies

to keep the house noisy and colorful

it was then that one of these birds

got out of our aviary

that tore my heart and caused me pain

not because of the loss of my funds

or the decrease in the sound

but the escapee knew not

to survive in the outside world

marked by too many predators

now with three months more

for you to be eighteen

and with your flight

away from my sight

the same concern surfaced in my heart

leaving me with a sleepless night

henry victor      26.09.2007

i submit

gentle breeze; can be

windy, rarely cyclonic

i watch and submit

henry victor     13.08.2002

rained your love

with your love you came into my empty

space, my soul, parched like a dry desert
deprived of years of rain with all life turn
to mere skeleton, making me run to dance!

after you rained your love on me, now

a brook, i chase you, a young life, rolling
on ground laughing out loud my heart
and mind with all its content rearranged

creating your image in my soul, my cup

overflowing with new memories of massaging
your feet, scrubbing your body and narrating
stories that you playfully dump as boring!

25.03.2014