LETTER AT SUNRISE

Good morning friends

Good morning flowery flames of flourishing fields

Good morning Anases

Mockers tremble when you wake at cockcrow

Good morning to those who were born yesterday

Good morning to those who loved us yesterday

You cause rain to gather in our eyes

Grow and water the earth

In wait for the harvest

Good morning to those whose palms fed the kernel

Our children know of you

That you did not bury the prophecy

The merry songs and dreadful days

Good morning to ordinary men who feed hungry mouths

Though you are despised everywhere

Your name is everywhere

The Potter’s pride

Good morning to suffering souls

When your day comes

Offer your master his last pound of greeting

Then walk out to your freedom which waits at the door

Good morning to those who deserve our greetings

Good morning friends.

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THE BEGGAR

This is to the beggar whose lineage are kingsmen

Death, they thought, must be a better choice

Than slanderous fingers should point at the royal palace

And gossips should find their voices again

What happened passed from one lip to the other?

Candlelight

Snuffed out softly, slowly

In the company of bootlickers and wild at hearts

Lured onto a slippery stage

Dreams fester

Merriment becomes a curse

Wait!

Not the dancers are to blame, not the singers but

The audience, among whom the beggar is numbered

The kingsmen could no longer remain dumb

They forbade the prophet to prophesy

And the soothsayer they charged to remain at arm’s length

That for the sake of their prodigal son, they should be poorer by some bread and butter

They reasoned among themselves, that,

Someday, the Pig’s feed should run out while their son’s hunger hurt him more

They knew the Pig would snort louder

Till their son heard the voice of wisdom calling in the Pig's snort

And return home

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