convicted of life

I made new journeys on the old roads,
On old journeys I found new roads too;
In empty sentences I put some words,
With empty sentences made stories two.

One never written, the other never told;
I’d started living with the characters,
Little did I know their lives were on hold,
For I never put them into word structures.

All these years I had been busy living,
Did nothing when there were things to do,
The sleepless nights I spent shivering,
I enjoyed them most when I caught flu.

Every day the dreams took me on a new high,
Every time I was stealing moments from time,
One night I spent without a wink of the eye
To commit that atypical innocent crime.

But the prison of life awaited me and I was caught
I was convicted of having too much of life
In just a couple of years that were so fraught
With whirlpool of joys and with idiocy so rife.

I bathed in sun and got baked in rain,
Every emotion I experienced in one go.
In silence I said things, loved in vain,
But I still climb this precipitous vale of life,
And from it one day these stories will echo.

the next end

I've seen this place and this shore,
All its secrets are not secrets anymore,
All these cultures now smell the same,
Of breaths of hatred and smoke of shame:
Blood-stained streets moved me to tears,
Begging hands robbed me of fears.
A mysterious fire left a house in ashes;
Orphaned children waded thro' marshes.
And I once saw a child about to die,
I once saw a bird not able to fly,
I once saw a young girl walking alone,
Who knew nothing of vultures all around;
A man's life was badly amputated
With the knife of the 'religion' he himself created,
And a child got books for his master to read
"Slam book', a note in his hand read,
But he could not read.

And there was beauty I always craved for,
The pleasures I always lived for...
I always hurt my legs in this mad race
While trying to catch a glimse of a beautiful face.
I tried to listen to both music and noise,
Never shed tears on not winning a prize,
I learned new things I never wanted to do,
And the life laughed at me but I never knew.

I have seen this place and this shore,
All its secrets are not secrets anymore.
I have set out to find this life's new door,
The next end is what my search is for.