Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Secrets

As I walk in wide-eyed wonder, I explore the soot-filled nooks
Unravelling the secrets of life through untold stories
And every fragment of what was brought together
Makes me wonder what brought me to life
The blossoming sexuality, the natural boisterousness
And unfulfilled desires of every human being I meet
On their quest for happiness
Amidst moments of hurt, hate, and heal
While preserving their traditions
Under the onslaught of modernism
Triggers my opinions on personalities and characters
And like shockwaves of panic in a dystopian drama,
I discover the meaning of human nature
Its novelistic details, the filtered perspectives
The strictures of patriarchy and the struggles of matriarchy
It's like a comedy laced with cruelty between rain-soaked epiphanies
The comforting words, ingenuity, the barbed jokes
And the truest opinions from the boldest of souls
Souls that fight to stay alive, that march to stand their ground
Souls that gives witty commentaries
On love and loyalty, money and social classes
On races and religions, dilemmas and conundrums
And on my occasional slip into the realm of melodrama
I realise that life, with its mishaps, is just a practical magic
A drunk night of fries and margaritas
A middle finger protest and feminist treatise
An epic journey alongside a broody convict
And at times, an opportunity to sink
Into the psyche of a single-minded survivor
A singular vision and an individual suicide
But how true are they - these secrets of life?
And how perceptive are we with one secret after another?

-PRK-

Friday, 9 January 2015

Jilid Aku

Berlaga lagi hati ini, penuh perihal keraguan
Tiada kesudahannya juga keberangan ini, terasa dihina dan diperlekehkan
Kekhilafan itu sukar dihindar walau seribu kali dimaafkan
Kerna pendirian ku sering kali mudah dilecuhkan
Umpama rangkap yang rancak aku sedia berlari
Dan menyebarkan cacian sebelum diriku dihakimi
Kenapa tidak diulangi sahaja semuanya?
Rasanya masih sama seperti jilid yang lama
Ku sangkakan ini novella baru
Dikhianati rupanya, walau di dunia baru
Kerna seharusnya aku yang menulis
Seharusnya cuma aku yang berpuitis
Walau gusar, gementar atau terguris
Kegembiraan ku cuma hanya aku yang lukis
Kerna ini jilid aku
Langkah ku dan keinginan ku
Siapakah kau seharusnya bagi ku?
Jika cuma tohmahan sahaja yang keluar dari mulutmu

-PRK-