A Poem for your Wednesday

Feby Joseph (photo provided)

Avenues bring us to various crossroads and pathways, some familiar, some new.  Enjoy the work of Feby Joseph.

City IV

How many times have I done this before?

Taken these broken stones

to rebuild this broken house.

Was this stone ever fresh?
Once, when it was whole… maybe
That is but a distant memory.

Yet. I start fresh –

with broken things,
The debris of dust and air.
The remains of yesterday.

I always took a moment to look

at the calmness that lay afterwards.
At the poignant beauty of destruction
The charred remains of a life rewritten

Like a tree that grows from a raped stump

A few moments of naked brown flesh
Then the business of green growth
For what else is it but business?
This rebuilding of broken lives?

If emotions were involved

A poem would be uttered at the first end
May be a few tears;
Then the chapter would be closed – it would be
The very last end!
The land would be left behind.
Not this rehashing and re-birthing of lives.

So, I rebuild these walls
Rebuild this door, this window.
I rebuild using these discarded yesterdays
Knowing that tomorrow or maybe the day after
All of this would be destroyed again.

I can already hear the grumbling winds.

It's far - maybe I'll get a few months, years?
I know it's expect of me to forget
But I can never seem to not remember.

That this home – this town – this city

That I am building was nothing
but ruins yesterday -
The broken stones in my hands - today

As I carry on the tradition –
This cycle of emotion-free chore
Of rebuilding from the ruins once again.

This business of Living

That started many yesterdays ago.

How many times have I done this before?

Bio

“Hailing from the beautiful South Indian coastal state of Kerala seeped in green and poetry, I am a spiritual vagabond still trying to figure it out. Presently I’m working in a desert – counting other people’s money while words waltz about in my head.”

           - Feby Joseph

* This poem was previously published on “Cafe Dissensus” in 2017.  

https://cafedissensusblog.com/2017/05/12/two-poems-feby/#more-6429

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