Safety Doors Locked

As I grow older, meanings fade & important

things shrink to insignificance as small things

fill my universe: a neatly made bed - military

style, a shiny kitchen and fresh laundry with

lavender as fabric softener; cinnamon coffee;

a woodpecker’s rolling lilting call in a tree

 

Work assignment completed & crime scene

investigations solved in nail-biting episodes

while munching on green veggies to satisfy

appetite - early mornings of silver sunshine,

colours shimmering within crystal rainbow

prisms - brightening sedate Cognac walls

 

Playing catch with an energetic, high-jumping

dog - lovingly resting at my feet afterwards: I

question nothing; safety doors locked and

burglar bars prevent intrusion of ubiquitous

psychopaths & serial killers, indispensable

for creating entertaining crime stories

 

A cup of strong tea before delighting in triple

caramel ice-cream, hot water bottles to keep

me warm while snugly sitting under a soft

turquoise fleece: this is my Nirvana –

this is what Heaven means to me

 

Lockdown Phase 2, Pretoria, South Africa

FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2020

State of Stupidity

I don’t do Conspiracy, madness lies that way;

I fully agree official versions are all fabricated,

but have no way of knowing which alternative

is truth: argument & viewpoint are determined

by politics & religion within subjective interest 

   

Although I once felt superior in doubting every

thing, I’m resigned to facts that today’s Reality 

is just a game authorities play, forcing the rest 

of Humanity accept rules for life they’d made - 

therefore I can no longer care to participate in 

 

Catching them out, or go on quests to find the 

more palatable truth, describing what has truly

transpired - because it doesn’t matter; nothing

matters except our principles, character & the

values we aspire to acquire, finding guidelines,

 

Setting goals for ourselves - at my time of life

Wisdom is the only thing I desire, but wisdom

is unattainable: experience is the only teacher

& has taught me being Human is existing in a

perpetual state of stupidity…

Lockdown Level 3, day 72, Tuesday 11 August 2020

Pretoria, South Africa

Working from home, wearing a mask in public
A very poetic existence I think!