Burning fervently
Kindled by ostentatious want
That deeply grates
The worth of human value
Fetters of Troy unearthed
Blood thirst of mosquito unrivalled
The Fire
Burning fervently to quench
The ideals of my creation
That have gallantly goaled me
Into a malfunctioning robot
And I maunder in a vortex of pickle
Each time the fire is kindled
Globules of perspiration stood unbent
Snuffing out my revered peace of mind
Setting me ablaze
With lust
And insatiable want
In a world that relishes in trivialities
And raised to the pinnacle
The vanity of man
And the debased of humans
Homo sapiens I am
Turned into a malfunctioning robot
Quivering knots
Disgusting bilge
Who has tampered with my thinking faculty
Who has set me on fire?
A fire that quenched not
A blaze that ceased not
Oh hapless soul of mine
That has been goaled
Into a raving lunatic
When will your freedom come?
Now where are the firemen?
All gone to sleep
Long forgotten in the abyss of shoal
A wailing lament from the mountaintop
That once inundated our ears
Swirling fire of the valley of dry bones
Scorching furnace of a forgotten world
Swiveling implacably from north to south
Augmented pulverizing eddy on rampage
Sweeping all I sight
Into a whirlwind of malfunction
Look at the beige crescent of human forms
All befuddled and jumbled
Surly ambling about in morbid apathy
All morons
That has lost it, smirched in pallid soot
The fire is consuming us all
Everyone is tinder
And ferociously consumed
By this sweeping furnace
That has behooved us
In our world today
And while I was musing, the fire burned
Coals of Awkunano
And ravishingly I have been consumed
By that tingles of fire
That emanates from the waist
Each time I became a human
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This collection of poetry addresses the nature of time, reflections on the natural world, the difficulty of loss,
contemporary social issues and gratitude for life.
A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
