Showing posts with label Humanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humanity. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Inkwell

The mind fragile and of glass
Isn't steel, metal, or brass
The brain, our personal inkwell
Often lays dormant, under a spell

This cursed trickery revels in glee
It has won out in our conformity
The inkwells dried up and bottles empty
Because we don’t need paper, save the trees

No medium of personality transferable
No way to express individuality preferable
Waste away each and every day
Discussing and pondering what you should say

Forget the technology we appraise so
Separate yourself from this death row
Dust off your inkwell and fill it to the brim
Pull out your pen and brush so form-fittingly slim

Speak words aloud freshly scribed
Sing songs whose lyrics you’ve long past modified
Even if outcast and misunderstood
Genuine emotion can find its way from the woods

Stop hiding in the forest so lost and alone
The trees are the people all carrying the same tone
Clean out the attic so dusty back home
Rediscover your inkwell and let your mind roam

Books Whisper

In the buzzing of chatter in the room
A single soul attempts to escape their gloom
Others laugh, talk, and worry
But she is in no hurry

Instead of discussing events and gossip
She engulfs her mind and sound into a trip
The pen in hand and paper before her
She finally stands as the creator

Tired of the corrupted environment
She slowly retreats, distant
People wonder only for a moment
But turn away as she is resistant

Brushing off their shallow concerns
From that so called humanity she turns
Into her world of thought and lines
Into the world for which she pines

All secrets and inner thoughts revealed
When once they laid locked up and sealed
Her once numbed heart silenced and still
Picks up pace to match the words’ trill

Her race against herself, humanity, and time
Appears before her in prose and rhyme
Bound together for all to see
Are the books that whisper to me