- Ants -

Disturbed an ant colony,
While gardening today.
Took their home
And some of their lives away.

I wonder if god ever stumbled,
On the lives and worlds he affected.
And if he was ever humbled,
By some pain, we had injected.

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Was it all a waking dream?
Did I imagine the reprieve?
Or was there actually
A light at the end of the tunnel for a minute.

Turns out that was just
A really bright bulb.
That blew up
In our collective faces.

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Hope is a fickle emotion.
Perhaps the gods knew this
When they left it as the last thing
In Pandora's box.
One final curse
To deceive us into believing
That everything would be okay.

Then again, maybe not.
Maybe they knew that our capacity to hope
Would be greater than our capacity to fear.

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The rains will fall in torrents
They'll flood the plains
Drown the marshlands
And leave unprepared cities
Looking like Venice.

The monsoons will be the same.
Boon to many, and to some, a bane.
But this time, they will fall
On a people already drowned
In a deluge of tears.

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The flight announcement
Wakes me from my slumber
Just in time as well.
It'd be a shame if I missed this,
Since rearranging the other
Trips, would be hell.

The final boarding call
Saves my from immediate despair.
And I head closer to my father's funeral
To make up for time spent elsewhere.

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How marvellous it must be
I tell myself
To not have to be rooted
In one place or another
But to get the best of both
As the season demands.

Then my gaze descends
From the sky to the earth
And my thoughts are no longer
Filled, with so much mirth.
For there I see people
Who have been uprooted
And the picture is not so rosy anymore

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The world is broken.
And I wonder if
We should stop deluding ourselves
By believing it can be fixed.

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Jasmine in her hair -
First to grace her wedding day
Then, her funeral.

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The man in the moon
Must be perplexed, and more than a little sad
He must wonder, why
For all the joy and happiness to be had
We choose to live in such enmity
Naming one set good, and another bad.

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Sorry. Instructions unclear.
Were you expecting help or compassion?
We don't do that here.

We can offer you
Broken promises and empty threats
And follow it up with a good deal of suppression.
But that's as good as it gets.

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