Danny Boy

Paul Robeson. The American Hero. The brother I never had :)

Deluded deluded. i am deluded.
in love with a girl who had never alluded
about the fleeting nature of things
leaving behind some needles and pins

Some Gibberish

a fever takes hold
like a python on its prey
waiting for the last gasp.

Another time by the river

you who have been flowing for so long
have seen all there was to see
you who have taken all their debris
and yet gave them a clean breeze.

i come to you for some solace
i come to unburden lost dreams
give me your heart so i can bury this deep
and tell myself i can still be clean.

i have seen good times, seen some bad
but you have seen all there is to see
and here i am once again at your shores
to wash away this misery.

Desolation

(Read this a long time ago in an autobiographical called "My God Died Young" by Sashthi Brata. A fan ever since)

i looked with eyes of wasteful grey,
i glimpsed the brittle words that fell
from lips of china, broken glass
helpless glitter that gold can tell.
sighs were woven in my thoughts
that rose and fell and came again.

some words had meaning, others none;
i could tell them by the way they came.
their limping gait, their wayward dress,
by the easy graceful way they fled.
some would die, i'd bury them
in some brass vase stored away.
and some could burn like incense flame
at cold queer feet of heartless clay

i parted with the ways that be,
from a homely happy future hell.
i feared some works which came to life
in the silver land with secret spells.
i plucked them out with trembling hands
and bled my heart in doing so.
for lips of china, silvered glass,
can never kiss the vibrant soul.

i spoke with lidless eyes that were
enmeshed in dreams that dreamers know.
i saw one vacant dreamless world,
lonesome, weary, painful, slow

- Sasthi Brata

She was a friend of mine

So, what were you thinking Danny boy? Thought she really liked you eh?

well, you know..we were talking good, no? i told you about how i felt really close to her and all. she told me about stuff only someone you trust would tell you. though i'm not sure why she trusted me.

what did she tell you?

she said i was a genuine person and she liked me and all...although she never promised she would stay, i thought she would want to, you know...i did try to stop her, you know..

you are a fool, Danny. don't you know by now it's just a game? they will take an interest as long as you play by the rules.

what rules? you mean play hard to get and all that?

yeah! thats it!

but thats exactly what she liked about me, you moron. she liked that we did not have to plan it. she liked me.

then why did she leave?

do you think i should have been calculative and should have had planned my moves?

yes! don't you realise by now that they are always negotiating? Always!!

yeah..guess you have a point. but i don't like this game. you know what?

what..

you just wait and watch!

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this guy is really good..what he does with the old Harry Belafonte song...sets your mood straight.