Familiar stranger

Your slow, confident, gait across the road
Had an odd effect: as time slowed…
Step, step, step and, gradual awareness
I’d held my breath; suppressed

Until, my eyes firmly secured upon the ground,
You’d passed, padding like a cat, no single sound
But the close, scent of soap on skin,
The edge of persona left on the wind

And a slow, burn… skin turned
Blush response, an indelicate yearn:
Impulse suppressed, repressed
Could I dare to hazard a guess, and suggest…

A liaison, taken, outwith that fourth wall
But small problem causes me to stall
That left hand, third finger, always hidden
I guess I could be forgiven
For holding breath; holding tongue
At some point, before long
You’ll show if you’re already taken
I mean, I could be mistaken…

But haven’t you sneaked a look my way?
Did I catch you with eyes out to play?
Or is this simply forbidden fruit
And so you stand close by, remaining mute

But perhaps, desire makes for misread
And the interest that could be perceived
Is merely innocent interest, in that girl dressed
All in black, different, feigning disinterest

I think, next time, I’ll drop my card
My diary, my phone, my guard
Some way to break, that wall of ice
That embarrassed silence

Perchance
A forward advance

Or maybe, I might just be pragmatic
Avoid the chance to be dramatic
Stop assuming, projecting,
Fancifully expecting
And realise, you’re just a guy
That’s passing by

Just another familiar face
Urban anonymous.

Verbal

Words cut, like glass on skin
Sliding venom, burning poison
Lingual shards of bitter hate
Lacerate
A lexiconal choleric mandate

Take this, serpent’s kiss
As this verbal knife twists
The semantic pedant
Derisive assailant
Berates
Castigates
Denigrates

Vitriolic recalcitrant
Self important cant
To orally fellate
An ego’s flaccid state

Please take your self-import
Uninformed
Derision
Self-aggrandised delusion
And with precision…

Shove it where the shibboleth
Don’t shine.

This one’s dedicated to qFenrisulfr

second thoughts…

There is a saying: “there is nothing new under the sun”. There are people who prefer to read a great deal and quote huge tracts of wise and sageous thought. Others rarely, if ever, touch a book, newspaper or even watch the tv or surf the net: they prefer to think for themselves and come to their own conclusions based on ‘original’ thought based on life experience.

Is it more valid to come to conclusions based on someone else’s thoughts… or to come to your own conclusions based on your own experience, but hazarding the possibility that one may miss an alternative way of thought because one has not been exposed to it?

I guess in the end, we could meet somewhere in the middle and base thought on personal life experience AND upon informed reading. But it is worth bearing in mind that some people swing to one extreme or the other and that will serious affect how they perceive and interact with the world around them.

One thing is for sure. Never assume anything. Never assume another person’s mode of thought.. never assume they approach the world view with the same methods that you do – because, in the end, each human is unique – as is their approach – even if they are quoting verbatim someone else’s thoughts.

Second guessing… second hand or first hand thoughts. It’s a complex sociological, theoretical world isn’t it?