Rubles of Broken Dreams

Rubles of broken dreams
Mount a lonely island on the emergency stretcher
Weary eyes are apprehensive
Afraid it’ll never open again

 

Brown wrinkle prune finger tips 

 Ball a fist and release, open hands

Stretch, nerves are numb of hope, 

Doubting fate he followed

As a wild water buffalo plowing

Into the futile future finding false hope 

Unredeemable dreams to the present

In time, where his time may be taken

Without ever saying I’m home.

Left hands embrace a t-Mobile phone

 Place over his heart. A precious music box

 That echo’s the melodious memories 

Embrace him from half around the world

Nostalgic cloud cast the tingling chill of loneliness

On his little island, homeless without love

 Hopelessness seize to grow

As the tumor in between his spinal cord,

paralyzing  his entire right side of his body

For 10 months unable to lift a knife 

Or a wok to cook and send money back home

To his only son, wife and aging mother

 

The Apsonsi  flap her wings over his eyes

And brought him sight of home 

Where the reflection of his face in his mother’s smile

Patiently waiting on his father’s rice field

She extend her hands to give  him a lotus flower  

But he is hostage of the human touch

Bound in chains broken dreams and debt 

Making her intangible, the  flower falls

Onto the his father’s land,

Only her tears water this land

And it is not enough to cultivate

Rice to fill their hearts full.

 

The Apsonsi flutter it’s wings to bring him back

Surrounded by water buffalo brother’s prayers

Embrace with worried eyes that shelter

The homeless man on his little island

Without his wife and child.

They see a mirroring reflection

Hopelessness under the wings of blessing

For his eyes opens to greet the loyal

Herd of brotherhood that reminds

Him of their fight to live for that chance

 One day, they will all get to go home.

With chains broken and justice served

Dreams piece to gether by hope 

 One day their heart will be fill

By the rice from their ancestraland.

 

 

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