| arjuna's poems no .3 |
| PLACE : CHARING CROSS GLASGOW AT THE CORNER OF UNCERTAINTY. TIME: 79 WINTER JANUARY PLAYERS: DOROTHY AND ARJUNA SUBJECT: ULTIMATUM DOROTHY SAID SHE HAD ENOUGH! YOUR PARTING SHOTS HIT ME LIKE A 10 TON TRUCK . SMASHING ME TO SMITHEREENS INTO THE UNIVERSE OF HOPE AND DESPAIR. BROKEN,BEATEN,BATTERED SHATTERED. THE SCARS WILL FOREVER BE THERE RECURRING AGAIN AND AGAIN. HERE COMES DOROTHY AGAIN AIMING THAT GUN OF TOMORROW, AND ME NOT READY TO TAKE THAT PARTING SHOT. |
| YOUR PARTING SHOT |
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| How do I take that path? Where do I go? When can I start lifting my weary legs? The long road to happiness seems oblivious to sanity. I have taken that road before at the spur of the moment, I have let you down. I have tried to meet at halfway But only stumble into a pit of double headed snakes. How do I take that path? Where is that map of bliss? When can I lift my sagging back? The long and winding road is waiting, Don't take that spur of the moment decision Don't let me down. |
| kewarasan gilaku |
ada ada saja tiba tiba jelmaan hantu purba dirimba kepedihan sumpitan kamu aku rasa dalam kepekatan malam yang hiba ada ada saja tiba tiba teresak dalam duka tak percaya waras atau gila mengapa mengapa racun yang menyerap seantero dunia fisikal anggota menjadi sotong tak bermaya, apa ini semua apa apa apa ada ada saja tiba tiba kugilakan kau tiada batasan kewarasan kuimpikan kau hingga ke alam Dante terimalah hakikat ini kewarasan gilaku kan mengambang bak purnama setan ada ada saja tiba tiba |
| An Unfinished Soliloquy |
| demented sanity in helpless mould unrequited love that turns to gold a whirling dervish spinning bold incantations that flow in the cold chanting mantras expecting miracles raining mannas from heavenly worlds paraphrasing obscenities into poems you can now jump into the realm if I must go I say to you then don't look back impromtu for as you sail through symplegades remember Phineus's dove never had it made I bade farewell,it all so true In my dreams I knew it too The time has come (my lover) The time has come ( my friend) Hark! The angels all will smile on you |
| taiping 30th march 2003 |