Wednesday, April 17, 2024

djinn

to be an artist 
demands a liberation 
few can ever master 

a freedom of the transmission 
that destroy the djinn 

that grants three wishes 
i wonder what my third 

would be? my first is simple - it is to my children 
to live in this world as part of this world - no fears, no hate, all love 
riches to help the world and keep them safe, alive 
to the beauty of art - accepted and in peace 

a long wish indeed but with a djinn 
                                                     - a wish must either be simple 
or skilled in the telling - that is a simple 
wish made in love 

the second - now that is a hard one because for those who we love 
we can only wish love and a mother has little choice but to love 

so the second must be thought out - a rich and generous lover? perhaps 
- riches? how much? endless margaritas at the beach and a well charged phone? is 
that enough? cats?? enough for a musical perhaps - with a speaking part? 

the second would deal with existence - perhaps knowledge 
so i can understand equations and math and physics - all in all to improve 
my poetry. perhaps it will be my poetry - to be a grand old poet 

but if i wish it then is it real? is it art? if i wish it - still my second 
wish would deal with existence, a livelihood to ease the third part 
of my life. 

and so for the third? what would my third wish reach for - it can't be 
never ending existence - that is part of the rules - and all in all who 
would ever want such frivolousness - to see those you love pass away 

countless and countless of deaths. it would make good poetry but a bad 
life - the third wish is the hardest - perhaps that is why cats only have 9 
lives - a tenth would be too much