Thursday, 15 November 2012

Even Song Escapes Us


Say we had no daylight,
Say all we had was song,
Would simple music get us by?
Would we even get along?

The sun gone, disappeared,
Out of thought and gone from memory.
The stars composed of minor chords,
A soft, auditory chemistry.

What if it wasn’t music?
What if all we had was sound?
Forget coherence and harmony,
Forget the rhythmic playground.

Soon notes and fragments of,
Would gently waft away.
Our mouths would function noiselessly,
There’d be nothing left to say.

Sunday, 11 November 2012

Sunlight


The sun, how violent it is! Angry, hot, illuminating and intrusive!

See that building, and see the golden wash of sun that paints it. I see a tree, it's body blackened by the sun behind it, streaming through the bare branches, causing the plant to tremble and breathe, absorbing the soothing glow. The mundane surface of this room I'm trapped in suddenly comes to life with yellow reflections. Light stimulates the walls and makes the chairs gleam and smile.

The words on a page crawl off their two dimensional reality and spill onto the desk. A pool of sunlight sweeps them away, pinching and prodding at their serifs, blowing them into a cloud of language, billowing up in a sunbeam.

The sun gets everywhere. It encourages me, and blunts my mood when it leaves. I seek the sun, trying to match it's descent with my eyes, as if knowing where it's going will lengthen the time it takes to get there.

I don't want to chase after it, but I know it's important. Should I wait somewhere, baiting my breathe, eagerly hoping that it'll return tomorrow? It should be here. It's always here. Do I really matter? I can't change the sun. I love the sun, but that changes nothing. All I can do is remain here, anticipating the daily scour of the sunlight, insignificantly appreciating something so many times greater than me.