Beginners (23 May 2010)

MARK TOBEY 
      (COMPANIONSHIP 1974 color etching 13-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches by MARK TOBEY )


Seize the moment at the beginning,
to get the feel of the end in the mind;
Can we, for a pulse of the time,
hold our breath for a pigmented sky;


Could we for a brief half-second,
touch each other`s virtual existence full of shy;
May we weave the fingers to imagine a design of life,
for the unsecure, unsure future before ours !


Carve the beauty of irony at the beginning,
to get the nerve of the fights ahead;
Can we stone by stone, brick by brick,
bridge the polarities between our sustained differences;


Shall we declare our public resolve,
for a agreed ultimatum to the untested consensus we inherit;
Will you join me in weeding out,
the mystifying, unclear, confusing promises we exchanged!


Did light wind of final arguments bent for the decisive assault,
ever crossed our doors for revisiting union memories and departed future;
Spot the rise of the intriguing truths and unintended lies,
projecting out of silence, mute anger and closed eyes;


May our every word wetted due to sympathy-solidarity,
absorb shower of tears, power of grief in deep gravity;
If we ever burn our heart, let it burn with ignited hopes,
letting each other’s jealousy, hate and suspicion becoming ashes and smokes;


Close the gate of unending oblivion we have opened for a long,
your one smile will bring rays in the cave we live all along;
Then I will destroy every witness to my stupid rudeness I encroached on you,
to fill that gap with even delicate, determined and pleasant affection to be humble in front of you;


Be a blushing lady, beautiful in articulation and bold in companionship,
for not so expressive but evolving consideration of unspoken comradeship;
Being myself a straight, simple and solid friend forever in every agony and ecstasy,
for a open, progressive and fair vanity of my company !


Though I may not be with you in every ending, but giving soul commitment to join
you in every beginning;
Then, join me in every ending even if you left me at the beginning,
Completing the circle, each one of us will be at beginning and ending, either or or,
waiting to compensate the unfortunate absence, god forbid, neither nor nor;


Please always remember, virtues of birth and death are mortal stories,
but charm to begin and chance to end the relation are immortal memoirs;
Come my fragrance of life, you are an eternal sunflower having love as a nectar,
since the dawn till the midnight, I have begun to imagine the next morning with you !


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