Delusional / Inspirational

Would you like to dance, my lady?
Step by step, we'll do it slowly.
My how quickly you take the lead,
Sorry, can't keep up to your speed!
I'm tired already, are you?
Was a lovely evening, thank you!

Would you like a song, my lady?
Take your pick, modern or oldie.
We'll sing loudly, voices in discord.
Hear us world, like it or not!
Okay, we better tone down a bit,
Still, it was rousing, wasn't it?

I take my leave now, my lady.
Hope you've enjoyed my company.
Another dance will take your memory,
Another song will bring you reverie.
My image will blur, eventually,

I stare in dread and abhorrence
as paper after paper is returned
like a broken photocopier
The awful results printed and reprinted
over and over again

I try to jam the machine
pull the power plug, stop the nightmare!
But it churns out paper after paper
continuing its mechanical motions
heedless to my plight

I lift the cover to tear the original
yet there is no paper to be found
then I see the face in the clear glass
and I submit to paper after paper
of my own reflection

As one wonders down the path most taken
The mind drifts to the road forsaken
Would the journey be easier then?
With so few to set the trend?
But alas, the route has been chosen.

Should one create a new track from old?
But so many perils and dangers untold!
Stuck at invisible crossroads
Weighed down by decision's loads
Stay strong, keep the path, be bold.

oh, look at her, there she goes!
eyes twinkling intelligently
lips curled mischeviously
And yet such foxy demeanour
belies her true docile nature
inconceivable
irresistable
pretty in red

oh, the colour of life's blood!
she boils my very veins
the heat driving me insane
a raging fire burns within
manifest of lust unseen
insatiable
irrepressible
pretty in red

oh, universal symbol of brotherhood!
damn, i feel connected already
what i'll give to make her family
so quote your price milady
your knight is here, get ready!
inexplicable
irrational
pretty in red

Pepsi Cola
one-two-three
three jumps back
take a step
and then
Attack!!

a triple jump
oh here he comes
legs flailing
arms reaching
he misses my rump
lands with a thump

on the other end
war rages
perspiring faces
intense gazes
two monks squaring off
shaolin kicks
pugilistic feats
blurred at lightning speeds

leaps
sweeps
all fall in heaps
entangled
bedraggled
shoes mangled

feeling somewhat battered
game's over
getting sober

another round of
toe stamping
leg kicking
action?
I'm in!!

trying to pass time
I revisit thoughts gone over
and over like a well-read
'Mockingbird'
and like a delightful text
it yields new surprises
from old words
only the experience is nowhere
refreshing

'never shoot a mockingbird
they do no harm but sing
their hearts out for us'
I give all that I can
my heart served on a platter
so shoot not
this mockingbird

or perhaps I cam a bird mocked
and there are no rules
to protect such birds
I'm no bluejay, but surely
still one blue bird
with clipped wings
locked in their cage

each bird sings for
a purpose

Standing alone at familiar floors
Thoughts wandering back
Tracing the old track
A different time, a different place
Yet much remains the same
A picture in a frame
Returning with hopes of fitting in
Still, nothing has changed
The new me estranged

Dances with shadows of a distant time
Collecting memories
Fortune and tragedies
Final conclusion to this chapter
Some things left undone
Other things over-done
Perhaps what would is never meant to be
Better left unaltered
Fate's path unhindered

Closing time now, turn the new page
Future to be inked
Past, to be unlinked

so they conquered our room
wielding their mops and brooms
cleaning the place
they claim the space
and from here the 20th blooms

The torch is passed on
To run the race
Look at it now
It shines, burns, blaze

New replacing the old
As of all things
Go forth bravely
With our blessings

Do us all proud
Reach high as you may
Carpe Diem
Seize every day

We leave soon, my heroes
Our time has come.
The young has risen
To take our place.

We head off, my heroes
To elysium fields.
Days of glory past,
Peaceful days at last.

And pledge now, my heroes
Drink not from Lethe.
That upon rebirth
We shall meet again.

The battles fought may have passed,
But the legend lives on forever...