Tomorrow Certainty

Tomorrow is never quite that certainty

And today’s a rumour from yesterday

Left over from some time just flown

Always re-emerging in another name

Where everything remains much the same

Rearranged inside another time frame

Compounding moments into a frenzy

Beyond the reach of our karmic odyssey

 

Narrow minimalism constricts our liberty

Reducing thought to a cypher of negativity

Trapped in a prism of fates consequence

Moving in straight lines by sheer necessity

Or compelled by force of circumstance

Robbing us of our capacity for generosity

Reducing soul to restrictive insignificance

Is perhaps the greatest crime of the century

 

Shuffling sideways backwards and forwards

Along constant corridors of disappointment

Life becomes that maze of bewilderment

Consumed by the gravitational pull of tedium

Plundering each imagination of nourishment

Shredding it in the pursuance of indifference

Demanding each soul’s utter compliance

Before the altar in a mall of insignificance

 

Infatuated by the trappings of materialism

Things destroy each souls loving humanity

Rendering useless our capacity to beauty

While some things remain changed the same

In a blizzard of repetitive indifference

We forget what used to inspire us deeply
Looking hopefully in every mundane mirror
We seek our inner selves in two dimensions

 

Each soul is possessed of such sweet beauty

Transcending ignorance and the iron inertia

With the golden hope of a living aspiration

Raising our dreams beyond our imagination

Beyond the realms of such unparalleled bliss

Waiting for the touch of our embracing kiss

Obscurity within may be a night-time seeker

There is no greater truth than the dawn of beauty.

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

"Tomorrow Certainty"
Duncan Brown,
What an amazing poem you have written! Life is so multi layered in this poem. Hope seems to be the unifying factor throughout mixed with complexities of troubles fought.
You brought it together at the end beautifully:
"Each soul is possessed of such sweet beauty
transcending ignarance and the iron inertia
with the golden hope of a living aspiration
Raising our dreams beyond our imagination"
Your writing here was very good!
blessings sir.
Kathy

[Duncan Brown]

Thank you....................................................................................................................................................love