{DRY BONE SENRYU}

{DRY BONE SENRYU}
THE DOJO SOUND...
https://youtu.be/VzyJhdQkIIg

{NOW}
Clouds racing cross sky
Sun peeking through now and then
The trees lean in wind

{HUSTLING}
Shirt flapping man walks
These days passing are fleeting
Such is the truth time

{SPEAKING}
Rage in the morning
Speaking to they, they don't hear
They would turn deaf ear

{TRUTH}
Only god exists
All other is conjecture
The folly of men

{EVOLVING}
His brothers as leaves
Falling to the killing grounds
They fertilizer

{ATTAINMENT}
Man in wisdom stands
Dry bones have reformed anew
Son rising so high

JERALD HAMZAHFARUQ MURPHY

{PIECES OF THE CONCH SHELL}

{PIECES OF THE CONCH SHELL}
THE SOUND AS I TRY TO EXPLAIN...
https://youtu.be/FbfESZxbaoA



I saw you damaged, so much potential and the world passing you by.
Spoke to you and saw the tears in your eyes, heard the pain in your voice, such turmoil.
Tsunami, hurricane and torrential rain.
Howling wind sweeping cross your souls plains.
I wanting to be the barrier that would protect you, the warrior who would vanquish the demons haunting you.
A moment in your arms, I would be thy rampage, thine wrath.
We together so formidable that nothing formed could stand in our path.
I saw you damaged and knew that you could fix me, gather my shattered hope of love and reconstruct me.
We building whole societies, they born of our pure love.
You the image cavorting in my dreams would be my safe place.
Our damage the thing that would reconstruct us, drag us from the seven levels of hell.
I saw you damaged and my heart... My heart bled into the corners of my existence where all I have left is my spirituality.
My belief that somewhere there exists one for me.
How can I be so alone in such a massive cosmos.
All these billions of stars and rotating planets.
I a particle, a second.
I infinity squared out to all knowing, omnipotent.
From so many one.
I saw you damaged and the world became but the background to our conversation, we each others healing.

JERALD HAMZAHFARUQ MURPHY