Category: People

Other ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #72

I seek other
To discover
Self

Aren’t we all
Afterall
The same
All around the world

Until
Somehow
We learn to forget
We’re children

Music created
The world I live in
A strange place
Of every possibility

Progressive
Political
Psychedelic
Spiritual

Sometimes
When I look for myself in the world
I’m very hard to find

Not because I am so small
But because existence
Is very, very big

So I remind myself
I am not in the world
I am not of the world

I am the world
And it is me

Spoon
In the left hand
Chopsticks
In the right

Spicy hot
Hot hot
Curry Laksa

Tea with milk
Black black tea
Condensed milk
Sweet Hot
And thick

In a city of
Greys and dust
And muted blues
A young smile
Comes to me

“Take my picture”
She says
Then stands there
Happy and poised
In vivid red

When the waves come, I can

Ride them
Duck them
Vault them

Or I can stand firm
And let the ocean wash over me
Feel its power
Enjoy the surge of energy
As it flows all around me

Some days
It feels like
There’s something…

Unwelcome

Waiting
Around the
Corner

The quality of an experience

Is not proportioned
By the difficulty of obtaining it

But is informed
By the quality of attention I offer it

They come
The families
In their donkey carts
Loaded with goods to sell
At the weekend market

An anachronism
A paradox
To a Westerner
Like me