May 30, 2014 Awake in Dream Time - Journal Entries about the almost real, the surreal and the unreal

 Un-Metaphorical Musings – Sixteen Haiku

©May 30^th, 2014

By Vijaya Sundaram

Focus!  I order,

Focus on love, joy and fun –

Tragedy, begone!

 

Focus flickers out.

Blindly missing what I like,

I simply exist.

 

So, filled with ennui,

I sit here, silent and still.

Empty, hollow-eyed.

 

Hollowed, I sit still.

Ennui all around me.

Boredom fills my bones.

 

Bones thrum to music

Outside, birds trill in pleasure

When did pain arise?

 

Pouring from the sky

Outside, the golden sunshine

Makes bright the darkness.

 

A bright ice-cream truck

Clamoring sounds fill the air.

The weekend begins.

 

Inside, in school-mode

Thinking, pencils in our hands

We face each other.

 

Puzzling over this

Moment of non-metaphor

Can we write the truth?

 

Here, I write in peace.

In India, two teenage girls

Hang from a tree, dead.

 

Elsewhere, children starve

Gazing into cameras

Eyes huge and hungry.

 

Here, we eat and crunch

The savour of salt and oil

Permeates the air.

 

There, a woman walks

Baby on hip, pot on head

Water, far away.

 

Here, see the landlords,

Grossly surfeit, call for more

Wine flows into cups.

 

And here, I sit, bored?

Bored, am I?  How arrogant!

Step outside, and see!

 

Today can go on

Stretching into a weekend

And the earth spins on.

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