PRISMS ...

PIECES OF RAINBOWS

 

There's a spirit of life

that sings

inside all organisms.


Many societies try to

silence us

into schisms.

Our rainbow is the world

we color

in our custom fashion.


We paint from our

ocean brushing

 

to the motion

of our passion.

We polish our

priceless prisms

 

presenting all these

rainbow gems


as visions we've released

with artistic precision

into our poems.

We slide and stop

along our stripes

riding up and down


on peppermint streaks,

sunny streams,

and blase brown.

After every downpour,

there awaits a rainbow,


a sure promise of hope if

we can let it be so.

Why is one feeling all so very

temporary and superficial


while another is absolutely

absorbing, immortal ... special?

Why is this existence filled

with such ambivalence?


When we love what we hate,

where's the difference?

We yearn for

the extraordinary,

 

and we seek discovery

in mystery.


But it's actually there quietly

in life's simplicity


with computer and paper

we explore the intricacies

of our reality.

Silently death casts its

misty shadow;

 

we can hardly bear to let go


although we know

what will follow

 

at the end of

each and every

rainbow.

 

 

ã Copyright 2001 --- Terry Niarra Tiger