Procrastination
I am always constructing the wildest dreams
In simple formulas
Writing life goals into 3-step programmes
and leave them undone in
Non-memory
My writing is convoluted
Too many extra parenthesis, always one word
Too long
I sell pretty portraits to people
And tire myself from describing
and imagining
every stroke and colour palette
I hide the empty canvas
"A masterpiece can't be rushed!"
A reflection of
A cluttered, unmoving mind
A mental traffic jam
Rife with horn
Winter is so long and hard
“Winter, you’re so long and hard”
sighed Summer between
Impassioned trusts
As they danced, tethering long and back.
Winter’s a keeper; raw, intense
Unafraid of opinion
Dark and black
But Winter strokes a timely dame
With softer whispers and a timid
Smile. She awakens
Green and faintly frosted
Meets Winter in his endless night
Singing in his sordid seduction
He rumbles as he slides inside her
Spring-green, afresh, a new man.
Sometimes, alone, he forgets Spring
He dreams of Summer and her endless days
He hears her singing in her Summer rain
He feels her stripping her fresh leaves and
Parting wild bushes for Autumn to paint
A vileness only made viler because
Jealousy had no home between them
He dreams of her and she dreams of him
But the two never again did meet
The atmosphere was different with him.
He had a gentle smile - such is life, c'est la vie! - a milky blend of soft quiet sunlight. Being flashed with his lopsided grin was like sipping a fresh brew of Felix Felicis. He looked, smelt, and melted me with the precise accuracy of everything I cherish secretly is a soft glowing spot in the forest of my mind.
The moment was as unparticular as an odd scent I desire - the smell of old elevators, old buildings, and of the musky, musty, trapped air of staircases. It was so rare, so fleeting, and so unimpressive that I alone (and my brothers) understood. This moment revealed itself like the sudden flight of a camouflaged bird upon a brown lake. "Was this here? Was this here all along?" you wonder in wonderment.
It was a shining day, an absolutely stereotypically Disney shining day. Radiant, peaceful, dazzling. He brought me to a temple in Adelaide, breaking my dry temple spell. I slowly gained feeling back in my cold winter fingers as the weather turned to spring, relishing the quiet beauty of the dignified aura. We spent a good two hours inhaling golden air and calming our minds. The sun shone on his face at a precisely calculated angle. His eyes shone the blue of a summer's sky, bright from within, and light as the gentle flowing of water in a stream.
The moment was significant because it was inevitable. We danced our way towards it, knowing it would fall into place, but not knowing how. Of all possible moments, this was the trigger. Where is the significance of the stars aligned? Or of the engravement of specifically curved lines on my palm? And yet it was clear as day, clearer than day, a smile carved out of sun, bold and absolutely smashingly significant to us.