REALITY-WARNING

Waking from bed, trapped,

 humiliated, to wake up to the Real: 

the Universe that can be kept is

 now suddenly shattered to pieces,

 as once we were bewitched:

 the flirtatious winking eyes of eye-balls,

 a lock of hair left orphaned,

 or a confession of love now gone for good!

 - There is no melancholy day that I do not ponder:

 I have protected a vulnerable lily-stalk,

 selfless, and at last a discarded, recyclable 

of recyclable rags, myself included!

 The stubborn and obstinate opponents

 of my law and my right are always

 warning me that there must and can be 

a better and more beautiful existence

 within the bounds of tolerance!

 - Today all dream-vision is shattered:

 nervous vapours, diamond-shadows

 of refraction, still fight and quarrel, 

On my shaggy face: the hamster-tongue

 of the chubby still remains!

 - Happy now can only he be Who,

 with confident and covetous cupidity,

 The fragile-footed happiness found,

 That sought not, but only listened to his Heart!

 It would have been better,

 then and there, in the tangible

 and immortal moment,

 to confess, to say that the two of them

We only made each other laugh.

 That it was worth while to cherish

 each other's handkerchiefs and cherish

 forever the palaces of the wounded-men!

 - But so it is well, and now 

in the finished event there can

 be no alteration and shaping: 

cowardly and stupid 

my half-assedness is added

 to the irony of self-pity,

 though I shall be plucked out

 by cherishing swan-hands,

 and with lion's loyalty encouraged

 to rise with kindness from the muddy earth!

 The shining planet-continent

 and the true-pearl-star

 stood before me in pairs,

 and I dared but on paper

 to prove the wonders of my burning emotions!