Apr 7, 2013 Character Vignettes for Possible Novels, Original Poetry
Portrait of a Fake
©By Vijaya Sundaram
April 7th, 2013
It’s in her eyes, you understand.
Her eyes that hold the mistrust, the dark fears,
The resentment, the self-deluding lies.
Too frightened to turn inward and read what’s
Held in the abysmal depths of her heart.
It’s in the insincere smile, the tinkling laugh,
The worried look, the cold self-absorption
That mark her every utterance, her tone,
Messaging deceit too light to notice,
As she slithers forward like a cobra.
She holds her grudges, she clings to anger.
She knows no other way, for her very
Self was build on these, too far from childhood
Take those away, and not much is left there.
Just a void with remnant strands of realness.
So, perhaps those resentments and grudges
Those fake-friendly words and insincere smiles
Are fine as they are, for who can face the
Awful truth of one’s own emptiness and
Remain standing, exposed, and in one piece?
Perhaps it would be better, though, to melt
Away into nothingness, perhaps to
Die and reshape oneself into a new
More real, truer self, unpropped by ego
And held aloft by a true love for all.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tags: #Love, #NaPoWriMo, #Rebirth, #Truth, deceit, Ego-centrism, falsitude, inward, realness, reshaping self, void
Apr 7, 2013 Awake in Dream Time - Journal Entries about the almost real, the surreal and the unreal, Original Poetry
Disregard -- A Poem
©By Vijaya Sundaram
April 7th, 2013
It is only when you sit in silence
Electricity humming in your eyes
That you notice you are grimly angry.
It seems the thought police have invaded
All the spaces, inserted themselves in
All your faces, devoted themselves to
Tracing and erasing all that you are.
“But … But …” you stammer deep within your mind
And now you hope that they will never find
The depth of your disregard for that which
They hold so very dear, so very close
To their lemming hearts, justification
Upon justification to prove that
What they did was always right and always
True, because only they are right, you see.
So, observing all, you reflect and rejoice
That, although they seek to undo your mind
They’ll not find you, for you’ll be gone, a flash
Of laughter and mischief, and that too will
Vanish in the hot sunshine of your words.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tags: #NaPoWriMo, #Original Poem, Disdain, disregard, free mind, free speech, Freedom of speech, justifications