Ordinary People Thinking

Ordinary People Thinking

by Marshal Gebbie

Sifting through throngs of ordinary people 
Feeling the sweat run down your spine, 
Knowing that somewhere, lost in the nowhere 
Penniless thoughts are sweeping your mind. 

Whispering breezes caress the deep valleys 
Towering aspens reach for the sky 
Loveliness stretches across the whole landscape 
And ordinary people live life as they die. 

The everyday actions of ordinary souls 
Which gather like old leaves in piles at your feet, 
They billow and flow like windblown confetti 
And lay there like derelict snow in the street. 

The passion and pain that flow through the lifeway 
The highs and the lows that paint in your mind 
Magnificent portraits of colour and texture 
That render your eyesight effectively blind. 

You scream at the hollowness, vacantly pulsing 
Thrash at the emptiness shimmering there, 
Long for the avalanche of substance returning 
Long for the touch of her long golden hair. 

Swim through the morass of ordinary people 
Wade through the ordinary thoughts that live there 
Making the most of the moments of lightness 
Through quivering lips you discard despair. 

Dancing in puddles and splashing through gutters 
Cascading on through in a frivolous way, 
Tossing your mane with a smile built on vapour 
Dispelling your cares like windblown hay. 

To gasp for air in the turquoise downtime 
Thrust out your palms apon your knees, 
Feel your chest convulse with effort 
These flooding tensions gush to ease. 

Whispering nothings are echoing softly 
Silkily wafting from this side to there 
Imparting the message that life is worth living 
And crimson & scarlet diffuse in the air. 

This ordinary day has done it’s thing now 
Temperate airs have cooled to chill, 
Vistas fade into the distance 
Starlings flock upon the hill. 

Marshalg 
Mangere Bridge 
18 January 2008

Oc

Reviews

[Marshal Gebbie]

I really don't give a bugger what you all think of this little ditty...
This piece makes me feel good about my fellow man
and that's quite satisfying enough for me!