Private Room

Discussion in 'Poetry' started by pagansrule!, Apr 25, 2006.

  1. pagansrule!

    pagansrule! Member

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    This is a piece I wrote yesterday depicting the sheer boredom I was feeling so if you find it weird don't be afraid to comment on it.


    Private Time


    I’m sitting here waiting,

    Waiting for Yesterdays’

    Number to materialize on my receiver.

    In the meantime I work,

    Even if I have nothing to do.

    I am a work machine.

    I can manufacture assignments,

    Create problems to solve.

    I don’t bother shutting down,

    Because my brain would

    Succumb to boredom.

    I jot endless manuscripts on

    Innumerable sheets of paper.

    I solve equations, break riddles and

    Contemplate the meaning of Everything.

    The sun can melt anything,

    Even the day itself making it ooze over its’

    Temporal boundaries into the next one.

    Soon Time becomes like Buddha,

    Changing, yet remaining perfectly still.

    I wish I were Buddha.

    I can melt like Time, but I’m also restless.

    I try to ride the liquefied minutes by staring into

    The vast electromagnetic wasteland.

    I then repeat my mantra: “See? My life could be worse”

    Of course I’m right.

    Though it’s a bitter pill to swallow

    In this “good life” I feel like

    I’ve run out of prayers for God.

    In want of nothing, what can I possibly say?

    I’m selfish in a way.

    I don’t want boredom yet

    I long for excitement.

    I only find excitement,

    In those mad manuscripts that I create.

    I can measure success in stains of black graphite.

    The more that coats my hand, the more I have achieved.

    This is why I love the night.

    It’s like being covered in triumph.

    But I will wait until Yesterday rings.

     
  2. osiris

    osiris Senior Member

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    People rarely consider it, but Buddha might have been the most bored of all.

    :)
     
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