The Next Crazy Venture...

Writing is best done when you're supposed to be doing other things. (Haha, in this case, writing, of the paid kind.)

Happy 2009, everyone!

The Next Crazy Venture

I craved an uncomplicated life.

Problem-free

Though, of course, the problems wound their way back to me

As I suppose

There’s no show without

A conflict

To be expected – silly, really

Resolution is for the rested dead.

So we deal, we play

We place our wagers

Here a five, and there, our life

Clenched by a tight wire thread

Strung between the Twin Towers – NYC, 1974

Walking as the wind

Dances, and we dance, we do

We lie suspended in the sky

We laugh at the ease of it

We sing; we wait to deliver

The wisdom of an age.

The punchline finale:

‘All the world’s a stage’

‘Reach, though your reach may yet exceed

Your grasp. Or else what’s Heaven for?’

Know this. Life is one, and life

Is not meant to be survived.

Announced to wild applause

Real and recorded.

Your quality – one to be remembered

Then forgotten.

Peace. Cease to seek it.

Be.

Whatever. Hand me the deck.

Deal over.

© Wenee Yap.