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The past are days
like pages in a book.
On the first few pages
you can’t figure out
what the story is all about.
Prologue.
“There is a man struggling
to find his place in this world.
Had his share of hits and misses.
Of crossroads where-
it is hard to decide
which road to walk into, and
on which doors to knock.
Afraid, that somebody may not
be there to turn the knob.
And open up.”
If only, these eyes can pause reading
and stop for a while at these words
that almost made me yawn and sleep.
Insignificant hours of keeping on.
Hoping this story will not lead
into another unhappy ending.
“Why do we have to be serious
all the time?”
Don’t ask me. It’s your problem.
The questions still left
hanging in there, moments.
When pages stood unclear,
incomplete with the sentence.
Waiting for somebody
to knock the door. I’ll open up.
“Is that all? Is that all?
Is that all there is to wait
and it all boils down to this?”
Tempted to return to the first few pages.
Back to the parts when I remember
breaking down halfway through a paragraph.
As if not knowing how did it start
somebody talking to me. It should have
been better not to have read at all.
No clues from the beginning.
And the countdown to the hours
remains. Finish reading parts
on the last chapter- I confront.
Today- no happy ending.
Epilogue.
“And fear creeps in like a mirror
he have to face everyday.
There was a time when he need
to jump into the pond of uncertainty.
Searching the man in his reality,
faced with nagging bouts of questions-
What’s next? What’s on the other side?
What’s the future?”
I can’t figure out.
What this story is all about.
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The Bibliophile
Posted in Art Scene, Books, Current Affairs, Film, Literature, Memoirs, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science, Social Commentary, Society, Travel, tagged ancient, answer, army, astrology, battle, belief, bibliophile, blessing, book, break, brink, buckle, bug, calligraphy, census, chest, civilization, classic, clue, commentary, conservation, continuing, copy, culture, decay, demand, diary, earth, essence, exact, extinction, fiber, find, forgotten, fragile, fragment, generation, gold, guide, hand, heat, hours, humanity, inventory, juvenile, labyrinth, last will, leather, legacy, letter, long, magic, man, map, marauder, mosaic, muffle, muscle, mystery, narrative, notations, oblivion, pages, passion, piece, piles, pillage, poem, poetry, practice, precision, proverb, reading, receipt, recipe, religion, remembrance, rot, scholar, Science, secret, silence, silver, sinew, slow, small, Society, song, spell, spending, stretch, text, theology, time, tome, tradition, training, translation, treasure, unpopular, voice, volume, wage, warrior, watch, wealth, weapon, weight, wield, wisdom, wood, word, words, written, young on March 4, 2011| 16 Comments »
His muffled voice breaks
the long stretches of silence
while his hand guided
young and untrained hands
practicing calligraphy.
Watchful and demanding precision
of copied texts exacting translation.
As he unbuckles the leathery tome
of secrets in a wooden chest.
Tradition, theology and religion.
Diaries, recipes, scientific notations.
Inventories, census, receipts.
Readings of narratives and poetry,
astrology, proverbs and magic spells.
The volumes of letters, last wills,
songs and words of blessings.
Spending hours and hours sitting
among the piles of pages digging
for clues and answers to mysteries.
The labyrinth of a culture. A treasure.
Each of the fragile pages a wealth
weightier than silver and the gold.
Piecing each fragment in a mosaic
mapping an ancient civilization
long forgotten. He believed, it was
here in his hands lies the fiber, sinew
and muscle of generations of man-
the society is ought to remember.
So he became a warrior, obsessed
with the written word wielding
weapons of passion and wisdom.
With his small army of juvenile scholars
continuing an unpopular legacy.
Waging the classic battle against time,
earth bugs, heat, rot and decay
slowly finding its way like marauders
pillaging the essence of our humanity
into oblivion and brink of extinction.
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