Friday Wishes (2)

Open your eyes

To life

Protect your heart

Against hatred

Open your mind

To learning

Protect your life

Against a total onslaught

Open your future

To new experiences

Protect your spirit

Against evil actions

Open your soul

To love

Protect your doors

Against users

Open your determination

To life

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, for family and friends, sometimes we don’t have to be close to share a special connectedness. 2012-11-30.

Friday Wishes (1)

Open my eyes

To life

Close my heart

To hatred

Open my mind

To learning

Close my life

To a total onslaught

Open my future

To new experiences

Close my spirit

To evil actions

Open my soul

To love

Close my door

To users

Open my determination

To life

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2012-11-30

Is it so?

It's always

The problem

People

Poor

It’s always

The challenge

People

Too radical

It’s always

The case

People

Out of their place

It’s always

The situation

People

Not radical enough

It’s always

The issue

People

On the gravy train

It’s always

The way

People

In the fray

It’s always

The predicament

People

Without voice

It’s always

The life

People

Caught in some or other strife

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, in response to David Kapp, November 19, 2012.

Just Wondering

Are we

Coming undone

At the constitutional seams

Are we

Coming unstuck

At the vine roots

Are we

Losing the plot

At the core of the institutional scene

Are we

Going up in smoke

In the heat of the moment

Are we

Trapped in a spiral

Spinning out of control

Are we

Perhaps unaware

Of the realities in this world

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdmoe, November 19, 2012.

It’s a Shame

We never learnt

To unlearn

Prejudice

Running deep like veins

Trapped beneath the skin

Where does one begin?

Wiping the slate clean

Certainly not a reality

It seems

We never learnt

To relearn

Tolerance

Running wild like a perfects storm

Trapped in more than a teacup

Where does one begin?

Building a new dream

Certainly a possibility

It seems

We never learnt

To learn

Acceptance

Running slow like the droplets to the might river

Trapped in the worry of forbearance

Where does one begin?

Question the one within

Certainly a prospect

It seems

For David Kapp, 2012-10-30.

Inspired

Hope knocked on my door today

Love invited her in and made a permanent home for her stay

Peace moved into my life much earlier than yesterday

Serenity built a shrine so that she could have a good reason to stay

Happiness creates an eternal room for me to enjoy every day

Laughter is the prize I collect along the way

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2012-10-23

For Natalie Johnson, 2012-10-23. Thank you for your inspiration!

Perhaps

One day 

They will bury me with my idealism

Stuck in the bones

Like the fossils in the Karoo

Carnarvon -  I once knew you

In the days long gone 

Struggling with Aunty Lou

We cannot eat ideas

So true

One day

They will discover their own idealism (I hope!)

Stuck in the forlorn places

Like the man on the moon

My country - I once knew you

In the days long gone

Struggling still blue

We cannot nurture dreams

Too crude

One day

We will explore our collective idealism

Stuck in the clouds

Like the lone tree on the hill

The self– we once knew

Struggling with the loss of reality

We cannot be spot on

Just hoping

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2012-10-16.