Promise

What happens to a promise made
But shatters on its weight;
Does it rot into garbage,
And bring forth an odious taste?
Will it again fall down the steep
No painful histories learnt,
Or does it collect itself and keep
Its way to the pit to be burnt?
Can it mend and regenerate
To become a word to count on,
Or does it die down in history
As game played but never won?

"Busy"

Dear friend, dear fellow being,
Don't tell me you are too busy:
I can only believe if you say
That you're retarded or lazy;
Time is generous and fair,
There's just enough for all if you'll
Stop all your procrastinating,
And save  the time that you kill.
Be considerate for the world,
Have your will kind and free,
Do unto others that you wish,
Others did it now for thee.
Have the true will to be kind,
Clean thy mind, oh human dear,
Test your conscience, ask thyself
Any of your lies before I hear.

Mistaken slave?

Born free, an equal man

Welcome like one  by all,

Enslaved  by circumstances

Existing of late like a ball,

Kicked around by all that play

Thrown out at end of day;

Sick or sad, or left for dead,

I'm a slave, I have no say.

..........................................

I am the slave you saw before,

Now why the change, sudden, of heart?

Things changed, you can't ignore,

Despite your demented mind's dirt?

Love and hate

Love and I, I thought we were

Common nemeses of hate,

Love left out of the window

When I came in through the gate.

I asked a friend of hate's

As to what to love befell,

The friend of hate seemed in awe

But about my love it would not tell;

It grinned at me for quite a while

It looked at me deep in the eye,

And shoved off out the door

Cheerful, but without a bye.

Korea, North and South

There is a place so contrasted on Mother Earth's east side,
That millennia-old siblings have now chosen to divide;
It was a place of happy marriage since times of aeons old,
Until a mad epoch of human history came about to unfold:
Madly in love with power came the patrons of destruction,
In disregard to human life they took a wanton, bellicose action.
The patrons took peaceful brothers on two sides of a fight,
And told them to fuel the senseless war with no end in sight.
The winner patron with bigger ego made it sure it be known,
That the siblings of a common history have differences full blown.
Those people, North and South, that once a Korea made
Are as different as one can think, as far away as one can tread.

Fair and clean

Whence your condescending looks they came
Let your bigotry under your skin lie
Play it human, play it fair for fairness sake
There's more to us than meets the eye;
There is more to you and me as humans
Than tells the ignorance infested  skin,
Just open your corrupted  mind's eye
Let's play it fair and let's play it clean...

The world as delusion

My apologies to the world

Sorry! too naïve  I've become,

Too wrong! I thought  I were

More than happily all welcome.

After all said and done

I think I know, more than I feel,

That I think I do, more than I say,

Know that the world is all but real.

Oh! c'est la vie! but  diese Welt

Is much better lived than felt!