Wednesday, 1 October 2014

That Background Story

Once upon a time when I was a young teenager
It was either Gawai or Christmas, I don't quite remember
It was after midnight, that's what I can recall
My cousin and I talked about the future and all
She asked me what will I be when I grow up
I always knew what I wanted but then I sat up
I told her "let me tell you a story I once read"
But it was all fabricated right in my head
She loved the story but there was no ending
As we both fell asleep, in fact she was snoring
The next day I woke up I don't remember what she said
But I told myself "that was a good book I read"
I used to feel like a shapeless shadow
Often I imagined myself a cruel black widow
Often I imagined killing those who gave me the look
Those who roamed around like a textbook
But it was that story that I told my cousin
A story so pure that gave me the reason
To craft my verbs without profanity
To mash up my stanzas of reality
To explore, express, impress and influence
To walk out of the room leaving a turbulence
For plans change but dreams never do
And I changed, owing nothing speaks of you

-PRK-

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Redundant Twerk

As I was going to work
I could feel the breeze twerk
I could feel the shapeless shadows lurk
Then my clutch went cigarette jerk

What was that I asked
I then felt my past walked pass
Felt so real, a dark aghast
A mystical rainbow in contrast

It's alright, I told myself
It's only until twelve
Neither it's a pack nor a commonwealth
It's just a certain emotion, no need to oppress

-PRK-

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Somehow, Rather

It's slightly cold tonight
Rather too quite and the ice cube isn't dissolving tonight
Even this rum isn't calming the waves down tonight
No glasses clanking tonight

What's going to happen tomorrow?
Or will there be a tomorrow?
If not, can I borrow a tomorrow?
So I can narrate tonight's story tomorrow?

When it started yesterday
Like that was the last yesterday
When they really wanted to live yesterday
To know what they were meant to breathe for yesterday

As last week was warm
Last week was a little cosy
Though last week the cottage was swarmed
Last week the reverence itself was rather a posey

But this is now
This is where I empty a glass of rum
And then I'll take a bow
And craft a story of a rebel scum

-PRK-

That Arranged Marriage

It's all Greek to me in its infancy
Letting nature take its course; a date with destiny
Damned if I do, damned if I don't
In a den of iniquity; halfway decent and be damned on my own
And my drunkenness diluted in foreign liquors
My scruples thawed alongside such rigours
A command performance so peculiar
Cruising for a bruising in the whole hemisphere
For there is no evil neither mercy
Neither sinners nor such divinity
There is only justness and impropriety
Two-chambered in somewhat a unity
So when the drape falls, I shall be quick to take a bow
Re-create a mannequin sprawl as opposed to a beau
For it's an alliance free of rupture
Should such emotion arise, nevermore will I miscarry the utter

-PRK-

Wednesday, 3 September 2014

The Butterfly Room

As I get to the swallow hole
You surfaced, kicked to locomote
Often I see you in my sleep
On the boat you were rocking with your thoughts
While the devil makes its round
My songs overwrote the memory
A misquoted wound
A Shakespearean's tragedy

-PRK-