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      05.01.2012

change

with garments of silky humility
you entered my orchard
tasting and eating from trees
i planted and watered

with my own sweat and blood
but soon you cut open fences
of all four sides of my grove
like that military enemy

implementing Tamil genocide

unclothed now you also invited
strange men to my teak bed
making it comical for them

driving me into neighbourhood

new and derelict to be serviced
by the Edmonton food bank
and other drop in centres

11.02.2012

new and evolving memory

those silky colourful curtains on my windows
frail memories to my past days and nights
you tore it into pieces like the crocodile
tearing the flesh and drowning her prey

that zebra, innocent animal who came

to quench his thirst in the African water-hole

this act of scattering a precious person

Justin, my grandson judges as brutal

and wicked considering a monster

like you not part of his new and evolving
memory rooted well in the cuddling
of the grandfather, making him cackle

12.02.2012