Apr 1, 2017 NaPoWriMo, Original Poetry

We Wave You Away
©April 1st, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram

Everything waves away
The encroaching end.
Off with you, begone!
Look!  Bright lights and warmth!
You cannot approach.
There is no place here
For the likes of you!

Hearth-fire leaps and twirls,
Dog curled at our feet.
Sonny Rollins blows hard
While Max Roach
Whirls his sticks and skates
Across meters, dancing.
And Tommy Flanagan
Punctuates all with light
Finger-tips, master-ease.

Brown rice, tofu, spinach
Cooked with tomatoes,
Spices, onions, peanuts,
Settles like a sigh of
Pleasure in our bellies.
We sit, and we read
Before the fire.  The dog
Is content, her people
Near her, two-egg omelette
And yogurt for her dinner,
Her drowsing attention
Ready to leap into
Fierce action at a sign.

So, you cannot come here,
You, the inevitable
Face of the end of things.
Do not approach at all.
Take a break, leave us be,
Leave the world for now.
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Tags: #Contentment, #DeathDeferred, #OriginalPoetrybyVijayaSundaram