A whole different game

Wake up slowly, and don't yet hide -
imagine, and wish the ice away.
open your eyes softly, open them wide,
to see another brand new day.
 
And everything's changing, he said -
But no, the change is not the same
Life is changing, we aren't dead ;
Its just a whole different game.
 
Just a whole different game.
 
Wax eyed dreamers locking
still born thoughts in lazy fingertips,
drumming faint echoes of the storm
droning tunes, through shaky lips -
to hammer the silence to a form.
 
And everything's changed, he said -
but, yet, the change's not the same.
Life is, we still aren't made
out for this rather fair game.
 
Hollowed musicians on hollow tiptoes
creating silent music on frigid sheets
tapping away the moments, keeping
time to mark the turns of change.
 
Yes, everything's changing
as it always was to be -
 
So are the statues slowly melting
and so can you find the sea -
in the deluge, the hibiscus flood
of tears and indifferent blood
that washes the ashes away,
to bring in the bright new day.
 
And things have changed, they thought -
we are no longer quite the same.
And so we are not, when all we sought
was just a whole different game.
 
Just a whole different game.

~ Shombuddho ~

 

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