grace to serve

my love for winged creatures

dragged me into the wilderness

the home of the wild beasts

my focus on feathers blinded

me utterly until i was just behind

the lioness following a little rabbit

now aware of grace

that saved me i quickly climbed

a wall to walk out of the wilds

only to encounter a tiger

that graciously gave me

just a mere eye contact

and let me walk through

dodging a herd of elephants

i may save my brother pursued

by two domestic wild angry dogs!

henry victor      02.03.2007

 

get better in getting better

antibiotics for three, five

or even seven days as prescribed

cold tablets and some extra vitamin c

for a longer period

like other vitamins to build

my body constituents

but early rising and exercising

for twenty one days

to build a purpose filled life

and cultivate healthy habits

once this is achieved

still i cannot go to rest

if my goal is to become

a Japanese Sumo Wrestler

instead i must practice

constant kaizen

to remain a wrestler

daily wrestling

the world of decay

deterioration and death

henry victor      02.04.2007

against the current

not the river into that ocean

eternally flowing, following a path

not of her own but of her ancestor

that i pause in poise to admire

but a struggle of the salmon to spawn

sacrificially swimming swiftly

against the current to lay her eggs

for which i tip my hat

though her end comes swifter

with that greedy grizzly standing in middle

to stop before an upward movement

a new shoal, to the ocean, could swim

 

© henry victor     17.10.2003

deer in solitude

my life is in the solitude

like a deer wounded

and deserted

by the herd

and i live in this seclusion

rebelling

refusing to run like a coward

with the herd

my courage

made me pause

to stop and watch

my pursuer

making self

a vulnerable beast

to continue

wildly in this cave

abandoned previously

to be healed

or i am completely

dead

henry victor     05.01.2003