Thoughts in Loneliness
Posted on Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Thoughts
in Loneliness
By Apolinario Villalobos
Alone with just the whisper of the wind
that breaks the silence,
the moment of bliss keeps me afloat me on
the ocean of happiness.
Mind void of frenzy, becomes filled with
thoughts…overpowering
And like in a forest, they all become
jovial birds…singing, chirping.
Meandering thoughts bump each other in my
once empty mind
And, puzzling, though, got to choose just
one of them at a time:
-on a world that seems to shatter…is there
hope?
that, even at the last moment
whatever remains of its innards
be
spared to weld its fragments
long
molested without diffidence?
-on man’s greed, selfishness…will he still
survive?
despite never ending quest for more
that
stacks up hatred from disquieted
who
hesitate to act for the sake of unity
but
now feeling abused due to disparity?
-on man’s blatant arrogance…to where does
it lead?
when his reason for being, he questions
thinking that a force alone has made him
into what he is now, thinking all the while
with
intelligence, to no one he’ll reconcile?
-on the children’s gleeful prancing…will
this go on?
when the air they breathe, stained with death
fill their aching lungs, makes their head spin
and
the river they wade in is grossly infected
but, sadly makes only a few sincerely worried?
-on oceans and forests…how long can they
hold on?
for
the sake of the fish and others on ocean floor
the
birds seeking shelter on their lush, cool foliage
and
many other creatures that call them their home
when
dynamites and chainsaws spelled their doom?
Alas! All I can do is shiver in anger and
helplessness
With those thoughts in my abject state of
loneliness…
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