Conformity

Photo on the right was taken at Boston Park on my birthday last year.

Below, something I wrote way back in 2002, when work was much lighter and life was much simpler...


conformity
denial, blindness
feeble attempt at honesty
in a charade where all one's feelings
are shadows
and all of one's thoughts are masked in parade..

where
clowns walk, unsmiling
and musicians proceed, not playing
and where the crowd, besides oneself
is indifferent, and see only those
whom they want to see

all the while
cheering on
a weeping
parade in its procession
towards a neverending eternity
separated from
you who know,
and love,
and see,
and feel.

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I'm off to jam and have fun! And tomorrow is another chance to play with the new baby EOS in Bataan! Woopee! happy weekend everyone!