Merak Magazine

the so-called naked truth

I’m skilled at bottling up my feelings but I’ll burst if you shake me. one pull at a loose thread and I come apart at the seams. I’ll boil and boil until my skin cracks and peels off, eggshell-easy. there’s…

  Sudden Change

When his lips uttered those words, The blood drained from her face and a sheaf of dizziness fluttered through her mind, Her red tears-filled eyes gave a subdued look ,that he ignored, She wiped her fresh tears  with the back…

The Forgotten Comrade

Two comrades in arms, sundered by death. One laid to rest, and the other returned, bereaved and full of health. The fallen comrade, resting at first, traversed the cosmos, with Angels fair and splendor, to God’s throne and there merrily…

A Trip Down Nostalgia

Come on and take my hand, Let’s take a trip to memory land, When although life was not so grand, It was never sad or ever bland. When our smiles were big, When our smiles were warm, When we didn’t…

Words of the Dead

Recklessly I am taking to my new home, Home I have ran away for, for long. Now it seems I am free from that little prison called earth. My body welcomes my new world, saying no more problem. Out there…

Nostalgia

He stares at me strangely This son of my mine He catches me smiling When there’s no reason or pantomime I’ve wondered down memory lane And can’t keep that smile away. Oh my golden youth! If only I could turn…

The Pure Savage

On lofty land The pure savage bird Builds its eyries With plenty of benign Dark from the human race The majestic Eagle, Flaps its mighty wings with elegance. Screeching across regions with victory and pride. To meet opportunities to strike…

Missing Feeding of the Birds

Keeping my daily journal diary short  these sweet bird sounds lost-  reviews January through March.  Joy a dig deep snow on top of my sorrows.  Skinny naked bones sparrows these doves  beneath my balcony window,  lie lifeless without tweet  no…

Goodbye To Reality

Here I am again, back to the beginning, Temporarily happy, with this torture cycle That’s never-ending. Thought things would change when I went through those days, From highs to lows, fantasy and I part ways. Why does reality remind me…

Dawn of a Dove

Chirping hummingbirds with wriggling flies, Dancing butterflies to carefree crows, blossoming florets and awaken shrubs, They wonder, they ponder dazed in a maze   Where have all the chaos vanished, woes wandered, worries surrendered No toxic mist neither urban rushes,…

Over the hills, Along the shore.

Virescent lines drawing curves of hills I worship every time I recall her figure, Douglas firs aligned Rivet memories from our first kiss How dry cracks on her lips Touched mine, As we spooned. Hot wind mixed with salt The…

I Dance

Do not be fooled when I dance Born  to survive I dance Born to resist I dance To feed on memories of conversations, moments lined with stars.. When emptiness invades my heart sinking with heavy dullness, I dance When keeping…

Reality

To understand the truth of anything ignorance superstition and apathy are the enemy of humanity.

Careless

For years, we smelled smoke. The facade was on fire, still measurements went un-taken. Flames carelessly set by those who ignited lives as if humans were candles. The bent spoons and broken bowls courted cracked cups? Many lessons floated yet…

I Will Stop Loving You

  When the sun doesn’t shine And dreams are no longer mine When hopes run out And volcanoes no longer shout When all the oceans become dry And you count all the stars in the sky When all the trees’…

How To Stay Alive

For myself and perhaps for some others it is all about watching, no, admiring the crystalline examples of intelligence found at times in the shade on a far-too-hot afternoon, those winged ones I share this staying-alive thing with flutter about…