Rosy Filter

Beginning, Middle, End 

A moral

We had a problem

We saw it, and strove

Through sweet sweat we solved it

and the problem melted, never seen again

I havent lived a linear life

here is another story

a fly was born

it flew in the wind going every which way

it flew through a window

and the window shut

the fly could see the outside through the glass

and threw its body against the clear pane

You think you're better because you're done?

Something about me irks you

So judge away

Score

And at my expense

Can't see how to fix it

Are you right or is it in my head

Am I good at this

Am I am I am I

Breath in and out

Gliding through me

Worthy opponent

You wanted, I failed

Though I saw the golden cup in my hand

In a dream

Love you because I was you, I understood you

I hated you because your strength made

Small

And it's a big pond, yes

But these days are behind me

So I love you and hate you

Because I want to be you

You can't win if I do

So close, my mouth watered

And I thought I could grab it

I owned it, I deserved it

But I was dizzy

Giddy

Pride wounded me most

When I believed

In loftiness. I could see the peak

But could never reach without some leap

Arrogance leaches on love

Sapping sweetness

And defeat, exhaustion

Potential reached with sights unseen

Because I had never seen one

Eyes opened wide

When voices descended from above

And I saw my pebble hill

Giggling with pride

At the identity you invented

For my detriment

Tells me more than anything else

That you understood the

Exact science of deception

I’m no foreigner to

Overarching statements of grandeur

Yet the pretty pictures you

Paint with a practiced hand

Replicate my dreams

And give them life

But prey on hope

The fake tremor

Blanketed in austerity

Lucrative dreams of frivolity

Reaping a harvest

They never thought to sow

 Unprecedented efforts

Requiring the abandonment of

Self-woven dreams dutifully

Supplied to a hungry imagination

 A calling of unresolved dilemmas

Perhaps even an

Abandonment of

Carefully concealed plans

 Blank cold eyes

Clouded in indifference

Thinly covered in between

The curves of a smile

 Words that ring

Even with mere half-truth

Sting more that Salt

Rubbed into open wounds

 A duty to obey

Challenging the untameable

Animal instinct

To flee

Savage rage

Overpowering the

Compulsive mortal instinct

Of mere civility

 Love that never

Factored into the equation

A modern idiom

And its dismal translation

 Tree roots uprooted

In a post-apocalyptic

Calamity of binding

Collateral damage shouting

 Terrified of the prospects

Of a local chapter

But with no taste

Daisies popping up in the Spring

Dandelions growing in a pretty little ring

Sand castles erected tall and proud

Maypoles for kids to dance around

Bubbles awash in royal blue

Swathed in cloth of pretty hues

Green fields growing over night

Longer days with sun so bright

The grating hum of the bumble bee

I’m going to stick to what I know best

Imaginary lands that don’t exist

Fairy castles through the mist

Unicorns with manes of gold

Warrior cats in boots are bold

Golden apples grow on trees

Magic carpets float and sneeze

Warrior princesses in this place a-bound

Leprechauns with coins so round

Mermaids float in and out of streams

Sand-man comes and sprinkles dreams

Chocolate and ice cream never melt

The polar bears can change their pelt

Built a sand dune in that land

Open your mind and lend a hand

In this place we play and play

And never grow no matter what the grown-up say

We just jump and bounce and shriek and shout

Not a care, not a fear, not even a doubt

Come fly with me tonight

Built a fire atop the ice

Watched it burn out

Watched it die

Built a fire in a tree

Watched it burn

and burn with glee

built a fire on the bridge

left the king’s knights

in a stitch

Set a-light a funeral pyre

Tied to which was

The old town crier

Torch in hand

I lit the path

Scorched a trail across the land  

Strong and bright each fire burned

By-and-by

Pendulum days

Where time sways

Like autumn leaves

Or snowflakes

 Pendulum days

Of kaleidoscope nightmares

And alternative realities that we invent

In our shared minds

 Pendulum days

Of spite balls and water fights

Of she said he saids

Of petty fights and hugs in an hour

 Pendulum days

Where the clock

Tick tocks

And time stands still nonetheless

 Pendulum days

Hunched over a desk

Trying to understand

The significance of the mitochondria

 Pendulum days

Well spent

Wasted well

Passing either way

Pendulum days

That pass me by

And leak into weeks

Months, years, a life time

 Pendulum days

Of Upside down smiles and smiles right way up

Confusing truths and half lies that

Change colour with the direction of the wind

 Pendulum days

That make the world the world

That make me me

And you you

And them them

And us us

And the world

Here is a story

We set our boat a-drift

Ignored the hunger pangs

We said: The burning thirst is only

In our minds

We said: let’s stay here a while

And so we stayed

 Sometimes I also tell the story like this

We were floating on the sea

Shipwrecked on a raft

We had two oars

And no where else to go

Nobody missed us

 I never tell the story like this

We decided to set sail

Stepped on deck with steady feet

Steered steadfast as could be

No end to the blue horizon

 Here is what really happened

We took the boat out for a spin

On a gamble while it was clear

But storm clouds gathered

And scattered us about

And we found ourselves

smile, he said

I am happy when you smile

so she smiled wide 

to make him happy 

smile, he said 

I am sad when you dont smile

so she smiled wide 

till her face hurt

to make him happy 

I like to see your pretty smile 

it brightens my day 

what if I dont want to smile?

I am happy when you smile 

what if I dont feel like smiling?

I am sad when you dont smile

what if I am sad and I dont want to smile?

what if it aches? what if I dont feel like it?

I like to see you smile

I dont want to, I dont feel like it, it hurts, I hurt

Smile! it brightens my day 

she smiled wide

her face hurt 

her smile was pretty