SteemitPoetryContest #16 - The Dream Pilgrim's Lament

(copyright: Ikhwanul Halim)

This is my entry in the poetry contest held by @terrycraft titled Steemit Poetry Contest # 16 + Winners of # 15!

*Life is a mixing of reality and dream. So the journey began. *

The Dream Pilgrim's Lament

Maybe for you, my life story as cheap as a dime novel,
needs to be sown with herbs and spices for the hurricane to prey;
or ‘cause my happiness as a human being is too transparent, in a bottle,
hence, you pour your spiteful venoms and wistful gray?

I saw the end of the universe as an unnamed mendicant,
undefined, coiled roads on the map away.
So, the epidemic you transmit ain’t become benignant-
whilst fingers stump strumming strings harp of lamented soul at bay.

He is the composer of beautiful sonatas, the paralized mute poet,
lock the wanderer limbs; worn-out hogs and saddles of camel.
The more you try to put a rope around my neck, entangle me to death,
my survivor's instinct will deceive you: and I will be vanish and invisible.

 

Bandung, February 23, 2018