sisyphus

Sisyphus
1-5-14


O, am I as like Sisyphus
Trying to roll the rock up the steep hill
O, do I still put my faith in my own might and skill
O, am I waster of life in the hours that today I kill
O, am I a follower of this avarice for yet another thrill
Where I would gladly and fain renounce it all
By this disillusion sweet
Smoking and drinking coffee all day
With no regard of something good to eat
O, am I as one to try too hard to play the game until I'm beat
For what I yet inquire
But to take my shoes from off my feet...








Milkshake
1-5-14


Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
With fair branches like my want for lunchmeat
Cultivated upon abundant ranches
By my shadowing shroud of high stature
In that this is not plaigerism
In that these words belong to everyone
As the waters doth make him great
And the deep doth set him up on high
Passing early afternoon hours
As these clouds soon sheath our January cold sky
Behold, the Assyrian whose height is exalted
And I am satisfied with this
Like a chocolate milkshake cold and malted....










Tree
1-5-14


I know it is something in me
To be as one wanting to be free
Quoting all that I hear
According to a tall but humble tree
By remembrance of last night's dreams
Of putting in my extra years of school
Finding it a burden to gather up my books for the next class
Cutting basketball practice for the want of more
Writing out the day's events
I know it is something in me
According to such a tree
Wherein the fowls of the air doth make their nests
And the beasts of the earth dwell under its shadow
Like our great nations that still stand to this day....












Stenographer
1-5-14


As a stenographer of truth
Today I am all that I can be
According to knowledge
Yet still looking for a way to apply it
And to do something with what I am taught and make it real
As thus he is still fair in greatness
Yet not according to such a length of his branches
Strumming another attractive and becoming minor chord
According to ones ear yet refined
As years of active listening
As a stenographer of this word
Proper and quite suitable
For such constant change....








Synonym
1-5-14


By these two translations
I am taught that a word such as gentile
Is synonymous to what is meek
As I will do well today
If all I try to do is but seek
Being one to delve deeper
Into the Hebrew and its Greek
Being one to think to be something in all of this
Overtaken in this fault
Still looking for my bliss
Still being one to deceive myself
But at least today I am
As each one will yet bear his own burden
By my anticipation of another resurrection glazed ham....