Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Cross-eyed god (praying to the)

Artwork by Tarek Chemaly

(Originally written in 2010)

Sometimes I feel like a childless mother, a long way from home, hiding into the church of the saint that does no miracles, praying for the cross-eyed god who’s not even worthy of a capital g,

The all seeing, see no evil, the omnipresent, hear no evil, the omnipotent, do no evil: Not doing is an act in itself. Laissez-faire in the name of the cowardice – look at me when I speak to you.

Avoidant personality and no decision is a decision in itself, just file everything under “natural disaster” or “le mal terrestre” – something that never contradicts your kindness, your infinite kindness – damn it, I said look at me when I speak to you.

No words could do you justice, just like the justice you have never done yourself. But who cares? A big PR firm to make your image glossy – repeated message, repeated dogma, repent all you sinners. Now repeat after me the story so far.

Saturday, October 17, 2020

A year ago... Seriously?

"A year ago" artwork by Tarek Chemaly

Oh spare me! I know everyone and their mother is writing about "a year ago".... You know the thawra and all that. Good for them. Me? Me I go back to Robert Frost's eternal words. 

“You’re searching, Joe,
For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.”

We all like to commemorate things. But honestly last year was but one of a full decade, decade, of problems. Problems that beget problems, and were started by other problems, and came wrapped in problems. "Am still standing" as Elton John eloquently put it. But honestly take your "a year ago" and shove it where appropriate.

Sincerely,

The management.