leonard daranjo Poems

The dawn came
With a promise of great happiness
But you,
with your dragon breath,
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Night was the faded negative
Rummaged from a family album
Trees were the elegant gymnasts
Petrified in a moment of time
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Change is the only constant
Impermanence is the only permanence
Formlessness is the only form
Mortality is the only immortality
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The test of time
The taste of immortality
Though Anachronistically incongruous -
A monumental testament
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Trapped,
Somewhere in the interstices between,
Life and death;
Thought and thought;
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Sometimes I feel so very tired
Of all the masks, the facades and the fronts
I have had to project,
I feel unconnected and wayward
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She’s as still as a statue
Except for one thing
You’ll see her tall swishing
Ominously
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There has been many a time when I
Lamented the silence of my heart
Circumscribed in a cold attic
The words I sporadically spewed forth
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Unfinished business
Unexpressed thought
Unhealed wounds
Unresolved differences
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Everything you do has its shadow

Everytime you are untrue to yourself
you die a little
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