Stellar Dust

Born of the oldest star

A gift from the clearest sky

Molded from the cup of the vast universe

Made from the spark of a single atom

Enclosed in a human soul

With a chi of a tender heart

The Drummer

Be…

Glide into the abyss
Where colors warble in darkness
Swaying bowing to the squall
Chimes echo the shower of magic
Music tumbles into a waterfall
Your body is more than a clump of ash
The heart beats with the rhythm of the earth
This is your last dance

Canon

I toddle in the stillness of the night
My emotions burst as I walk
The whispers of heaviness cloud the wind
For at the depths of my skips in silence
Within the music of my soul
Trickles the tainted energy of my passion

I dance my heart flowing with passion
Steadily burning throughout the night
Courageously pouring the wonders of my soul
Stunningly embracing my solitary walk
Still, my agitated emotion trumpets in silence
And weaves the musical enfolding of the wind

A Pig's Tale

Once upon a time in a faraway farm

A few days after my birth

I was pink & cuddly

Sweaty and happy

Then the demon came

And cut my tail

My testicles ripped off

Now, pink no more

Just bloody red and sore

No more tails to curl & chase

No more balls to wiggle & wear

Today…

Today

I will grieve

I cry to wash my fears

Today

I will laugh

I smile to honor her years

How Hot Springs Came to Be…

“Run before they catch you!” He shouts as footsteps march closer to the gates.

“How about you?” she asks.

“I’ll be fine… I’ll meet you at the city tower…”

11 o’clock in the evening she waits and he does not come. An hour has passed and a little boy approaches.

“The man from the castle asked me to give this to you”, as he hands a parchment tied in yellow lace.

She unrolls and reads,

‘My dear Hestia, forgive me I cannot appear before you tonight. The King has appointed me Governor of the Western State. We leave immediately at midnight.’

“What way are they taking?” she quickly asks the lad.

“Near the river, the road passing through the tunneled rocks”

“Thank you”, she says, hops on to her horse, and gallops to the forest.

She ties the horse to a tree and runs toward the voices of rolling caravans.

“Alright men, we camp here tonight. We leave at sunrise.” The General shouts as the soldiers set their tents.

She scouts for a familiar face and overhears a heated argument.

“What? You expect me to stay in that area for three years?”

A Love Story

Love, you left me with a big scar
A reminder of the pains we’ve been through
I suffered when you chose to live with me
You crippled me with your weight
And when you said you wanted out!
I was both scared & relieved
Thirteen torturous hours
Every second of kick & jab seemed endless
It was a long fight lasting from morning ‘til midnight
And I was just there battered…
I thought that’s the end until
You finally got out with a knife
I breathed for a day, but the next days…
Horrendous…

Just Love…

Back in college, first day in school as a freshman, instructors would always ask, “Why did you choose this course?” Before Psychology, there was another course lingering in my mind since third grade – Veterinary Medicine. I took Psychology for several reasons, but there was one reason I didn’t openly express at that time. In senior high school, I asked the question, “Do laboratory subjects require you to kill an animal for study and experiments?” And with the answer I got back then, I decided to take Psychology instead. Yet, even in my chosen course, I didn’t expect to deal with Zoology and Anatomy & Physiology subjects that obliged us to skin & pin a frog alive. I just stayed at the background with my heart bleeding while my group mates did the dismantling of the helpless frog.

Water

The Phoenix

Above me, a vast universe
Below, a chaotic Globe
Carried away by the swiftness of color
Darkened by the dance of desire
Evil lurks in the corners of days
Filth all over my crowded chase
Greatness can only devour this bedlam
Hope can only awaken a miserable mind
Indigo shines from the shadows of a rainbow
Jewels ascend beneath the ground

Rape & Rapture

Soundless cries in tapestries of light
Lifeless rainbows sparkling at night
Frozen jewels that burn at dark
Phantom chuckles in a string of lark

Smiling but dead as a corpse’s hair
Sweat as cold as the Ice Queen’s lair
Glimmering but numb as a vulture’s nail
Body as stiff as a dragon’s tail

Rain

Run, slide, cheek to cheek
Soft crystals gliding on a leaf
The world mirrored on your globe
Like a goblet turned on a velvet road
Gleaming globules looking at the sky
Like guppies praying to fly…

----Kunay/ August 25, 2011

Free...

Leaf in my pocket
Flowers flowing from your lips
If God gave me the pass
To hand you this fruit
I'd bow to your knees

As I stare at your presence
My being slowly opens
From the well in your eyes
As if the universe enfolds
And showers a galaxy of Love

Deadly

Shiny blades where water flows
To a whirling abyss of crows
Green and rough,
Soft but sharp,
Life can ooze out of ones throat

---Kunay/ July 29, 2011