Fulfillment finally

Been rotating with agility
while precisely ‘hanging in there’
in serviceable docility
next to gurgling porcelain chair

Squeezable white roll flowingly gowned
personality tightly bound
gradually becoming unwound:
Can’t handle one more flushing sound!

Then after no more sheets to be ripped
lost in predicament mirthless:
Tossed away naked to the core, stripped
abandoned, overlooked, worthless

But behold! By a tiny child found
the roll’s core now joyfully blown
Dreams of fulfillment finally crowned:
Roll reborn as gleaming trombone!

 

Beethoven’s 9th

Lifted beyond mind & heart distraught
Unshackled from self insignificant
Saved from lonely fear & scattered thought
Freed from mortal body recalcitrant

Passion’s waves crash on to eternity’s shore
from turmoil, anger & of guilt relieved
Briefly we rest in immortality’s core
not absolved, momentarily reprieved

While only the most clueless among nerds
dare describe Beethoven’s music with words …

On life’s path dawdling

Background music obtrusively
coddle days flap unflagging
keep on churning elusively
prodding, nagging then sagging

Been seeing our hopes quelled
though flashed fleetingly
tantalizing til knelled
then fade cheatingly

If on our life’s path we’re dawdling
what on earth are we modeling?!

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Life turned middling riddle

Arms faded & scrawny
flabby our middle
Many years since brawny
now mostly twiddle

Life has turned middling riddle
shows on faces craggy
screeches like mistuned fiddle
in melody draggy

On downward trajectory
our course & cause abstruse
Where’s a clear directory
for those of us obtuse?