Thoughts in Loneliness
Posted on Saturday, 29 October 2016
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 just like in a forest, they all become
jovial birds…singing, chirping.
Meandering thoughts bump each other in my
once empty mind
And, though puzzling, got to contemplate on
them one at a time:
On the world that seems to shatter…is there
hope
for
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, assuming all the while
that
he’s wise, so 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 vast seas and forests…how long can they
hold on
for
the sake of the fishes and others on ocean floor
the
birds that seek shelter in the lush, cool foliage
and
many other creatures that call them their home
as
dynamites and chainsaws spell 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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