Ajim Juxta - Tugu | Ugut

the roads are no longer kind, the traffic has
caught us dead in our boredom.
How hard it is for us to reach our destination
when we prefer to make labyrinths
out of our egos? They never last long anyway.
We are all Alice: forever inventing wonder
from our daily slumber. Forever we dig
what was drawn out from the past
and kept running away from what
we have created. We make to convince
our hands can do good, but we also
turn a blind eye when we destroy.
We plant our bodies again and
Again, only to turn into cold statues.
We plant words in our lives
Again and again, only to dream
Of blooming like bougainvilleas.
But our stone can only reflect one word -
At the hands of others, we are reduced.
And this is what creation is all about.
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