Time-Freeze
Weakness Of The Human Being
It is the human in you
That desires, making it difficult
in controlling your emotions
In keeping your distance,
Preventing surrendering
To the overwhelming wave
Of human emotions
From Regret, the teacher,
A life lesson to learn:
When you fail, heartache prevails
Still…a gesture, tacktful, soft and tender – it desires
Inside you a stirring storm of right and wrong
Like flashes of lightning blinding you,
Asking for more
Till the curtain of humanity inside you tears
Ripping open to reveal
The nakedness of your desires
A stream of sensations
Braking the walls of resistance
Flooding the field of sense
Surrendering to the overpowering
core of desire
experiencing the centrifugal force
Conflict winds of conscience
Try pulling you away
But waves of arms
Lure you in
Dragging you down
A deep dark ditch
Escape inevitable now…
It has already happened…
Experiencing a whirlpool of feelings
Uncontrolled emotions
In a crazy spinning swirl
Leaving you light headed
With a twisted sense of time
Feeling light as a feather
Floating fallowing the flow
Finding Regret
Like time and again
But this time also
Too late...
By Marina v.d B
from 1981 in Afrikaans / Jul 7 2009 translated
Weakness Of The Human Being
It is the human in you
That desires, making it difficult
in controlling your emotions
In keeping your distance,
Preventing surrendering
To the overwhelming wave
Of human emotions
From Regret, the teacher,
A life lesson to learn:
When you fail, heartache prevails
Still…a gesture, tacktful, soft and tender – it desires
Inside you a stirring storm of right and wrong
Like flashes of lightning blinding you,
Asking for more
Till the curtain of humanity inside you tears
Ripping open to reveal
The nakedness of your desires
A stream of sensations
Braking the walls of resistance
Flooding the field of sense
Surrendering to the overpowering
core of desire
experiencing the centrifugal force
Conflict winds of conscience
Try pulling you away
But waves of arms
Lure you in
Dragging you down
A deep dark ditch
Escape inevitable now…
It has already happened…
Experiencing a whirlpool of feelings
Uncontrolled emotions
In a crazy spinning swirl
Leaving you light headed
With a twisted sense of time
Feeling light as a feather
Floating fallowing the flow
Finding Regret
Like time and again
But this time also
Too late...
By Marina v.d B
from 1981 in Afrikaans / Jul 7 2009 translated