Sequester

we waited

for no one

as no one was due to arrive.

rather,

we feel back

into memories uncovered

swinging under the breeze

patience is devious

no longer a factor

in this day and age

deemed frivolous

oh! eros

wherever you are

hiding, it seems

awash in the chaos

drowning in dreams

watching with eye sockets

fried,

lost in the blaze

of roughshod reconnaissance

weaklings grew tired

grew tired of looking

or paying attention 

to distant screams

where did they run to

laughter forsaken

slowly we turned back

nothing to see here,

it's Rome...

Reviews

[Alisa Js]

Thank you all for your time and comments... I will be by soon.

Happy New Year!!!

alisa ;-)

[Sami Khalil]

oh! eros

wherever you are

hiding, it seems

awash in the chaos

drowning in dreams.
A beautiful write that is dreamy...
Aloha :)

[kelvin]

we need more compassion and a sense of good heart this is a good reading here oh what a world it would be if people had a sense for compassion and love in the heart amongst other things

[Alisa Js]

Hello serah,

That is a very nice thought to contemplate upon,

... 'each time a poet writes a heartfelt word... some sensitivity is injected in the psyche of society'

I would trust that we at least have one vote....

Thank you for your time and thoughts.

alisa ;-)

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~ sorry i missed this... you're very welcome... :)

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~ i think you've done a very fine job of writing a heartfelt piece about the need for greater sensitivity... i agree with your observation about the world... i don't doubt for a single moment that you might have observed the world thus on not one but multiple occasions and shared notes with those who've had similar or identical experiences... ~ but... and this is probably the strange sufi gandhian in me speaking... (so do forgive me if i sound biased)... each time a poet writes a heartfelt word... some sensitivity is injected in the psyche of society... we all have one vote... right ? ...

[Alisa Js]

Aloha Jacob,

I meant feel... so many of us live our lives by our 'feelings' rather than by a code of honor, doing the right thing, in spite of those same 'feelings'. How many people come to mind that may say all the right things, and yet, when time calls for action, are nowhere to be found?

Sadly, they are all around.

So few left willing to do.

Thanks for your time and for stopping by.

alisa ;-)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

did you mean "fell" back...???

Rome fell, our country is falling...and no one hears the screams...

we are like the christians thrown to the lions...

and no one is coming to the rescue...they are just fighting among themeselves..

where is the love?

why are we killing ourselves with animosity? there is so much of it.

thoughtful piece of writing.

jacob