The Fragments: <br /> <br />Streets paved with gold - young people by the sea - horizonless deserts - rocks of a green cape - momentary lonely peace - passion moments - addiction - sweet sleepless billie holiday jazz cafe - stockmarkets - connectivity - the family shattered and globalized - the play’s the thing - propaganda and love songs - pride and humility - mentors and prophets - faith and ethnicity - reconstructed identity - myths and attitudes - flat earth land politics - livelihood migrancy - return to the melted core? - headwaters of the red sea? - flying frequently and higher - crash and burn? - phoenix or hope’s fantasy? <br /> <br />Text: <br /> <br />So, is it mainly delusion? Or in good part? <br />Partnership and pain: <br />Evolutionary biology - <br />There is no “God”, but mathematics, <br />Physics and parenting <br />Seem to have some function - <br />Affection is less heeded, most important <br />As an engine to survive this “life” <br />And reach a peaceful State. <br /> <br />Recantation <br /> <br />All that I believed: cocktail and confection - <br />Mostly sweet and heady. <br />Well now, concepts are split and barren <br />And what I mainly believe <br />Is that Music is alone divine: <br />Inexplicable like prayer. <br /> <br />Insert <br /> <br />Calm the questioning moment of the night? <br />Leave the search for definitions of beauty? <br />Sacredness found in acceptance? <br /> <br />Incantation <br /> <br />I don’t like to fool myself <br />Too much anymore, nor any other <br />Least or most of all <br />(“1st rule: do no harm”) - <br />Solitude is more defensible <br />In the later laps <br />But if a body must be reached <br />And a mind is called to reply <br />(“If a body meet a body, coming through the rye”) - <br />Love should not mislead us into being atomized. <br />One and only chance of life - <br />Random, unexpected, unrequested: <br />A caged enigma, hard to bear, <br />Crying like a baby for a reason to share. <br /> <br />(“Nous avons toute la morte pour nous reposer..”)<br /><br />Frank Bana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fragments-and-beyond/
