Tuesday, 26 December 2017

The Season

And then another day passes as the world celebrates.
The world celebrates something it doesn't understand, or for clarity doesn't want to understand.
Boxes are packed, boxes are exchanged and boxes are opened,  causing smiles on the face of the participating millions.
Every place is agog with parties, revelry even. Friends and foes all alike celebrate the holiday. It's the holiday season, remember?




It happens this way every year.
The same cycle from beginning to end.
Stress and stressors ever present all year round. People running the race of rats every day. Sometimes not minding whose bull is gored or whose wheat is trampled. But when the dates come the fever precedes.
The fever sends people into the craze, the rave, for the sake of sanity. They work hard for what they can give the neighbor or neighbors.
And the neighbors work hard for what they can give to their neighbors.
The fission chain is formed, the frenzy and the fever that sometimes send chills down the spine of the neutral nonparticipants.
Is it all about that one day? Or is it about the season?
Are people supposed to live the year over for just a couple of days to live?
More concerning, are people supposed to be 'really' generous on just a couple of days in the majorly 365 days of the year?
It beats me

Saturday, 2 December 2017

And It Returns


And it returns
That feeling that is known all too well
That feeling in the stomach’s pit
The beginning of the end?
Or just the end of the beginning?
Nostalgia still raves
Home sweet home, well, gone for now
School, school and it stress waves
Hope that after all, no frowns

And it returns
Standing on the threshold
Beholding with the mind’s eye the “glory” afterwards
But still discomfit with fear of the stones
The thorns in the rose garden
Plans are being made
Ideas are conceived
Fruition albeit it promise
Failure will only be grave

And it returns
The faces on the face of those who arrive earlier
Show no overt keenness
They may be masters of cloak and dagger
Or is it a shared despondence?
Everyone stumbling around in an orderly disorder
An ensemble, a prearranged chaos
Awaiting for the word “go”
To scurry along to the last note



And we return
Bid farewell to yesterday
For it is gone forever
Bid welcome to tomorrow
Hope you are here when it gets here
But as long as today is
The fight must go on
Until we return
To the places wherefrom we have come
Chinazo Peter