GENERATIONS Copyright (C) 1997 by Not Nice Music
II. A COLLECTION OF OBSCURITY by Edwin M. Drogin

44. A collection of Obscurity

Canst appreciate what dost not understand?
Diamond dust is sprinkled on thy hand.
Meaning there is so meaning find,
Poets may lisp but they are not blind.

I.

When a flower is as wild
Can we stop to waft
An odor towards us?
When we love can we afford
to take out time and
slow.. ever slowly look
And try to understand?

Can we appreciate
the silence?
Can we adore, can we believe
can we forget?
How hard it is to remember,
but we can't forget.

Can we try?
Live..love the two are one.
Hate and you destroy.
Hate..there is nothing to destroy,
but destroy anyway.
To build is divine.
Haphazard is a measure of skill not heart.
Building is an art.

Fate is time's wheel.
Spin with grease or glue,
it will stop at randow anyway.
Toss the arrow, ponder and calculate,
It will still fall where it wills.
Fate is time's slave
No one else's.

II.

Live the moment.
Love what passes
Not what stops.
Time is ever liquid drops.

Float so softly
Limpid pool
Clear not dry
Pleasing...pleasing to the eye.

Sleep, but think.
Never stop, never hurry
Float is swift.
Time's treasured gift.

Do not gaze to up
Or down.
Look is pain
Observe is gain.

Follow fellow-
Hide and peek.
Dancing nimbly as we follow
Swooping, swooping, swooping Swallow.

Life again is not a trance
Watch it. Snatch!
Life is just a thing to catch.
Solid door but never latch.

III.

Can you halt time
And cry, "Stop!"
"We rush to suicide!"

How deep is a pitted surface planed
Before the smooth and grained wood
appears.

Laugh you fools,
Unwitting tools are you.

An avalanche is large
So ponderous.
We have the means to stop it.

The Earth moves
We cannot slow its pace or even
cause the briefest pause.

Laugh you fools
Unwitting tools are you.

Battle on the scale you can achieve
Above that scale you have no means.
We cannot cause the briefest pause of Earth

Laugh you fools.
By living in the forest-nought else exists.
But, we cannot cause the briefest pause of Earth.

IV.

	Ending comes after beginning.
	Mood remains till winning
	all it can
		it leaves
			never grieves.
	Feel when talking
			verbal walking.
		Sincere is love
			placed above
	the rest.

		Halt your mind
			it is a crutch.
	The heart must read what isn't much.
		The little things do comprehend
			The larger things are means not end.

Do not fear when I am here.
	We the poets are fools who care.

	Better than the wiser.
	Heart that speaks.
	Not the mind that rusty-squeeks.
	Meeks is not weak but wise.
	Peace is not when courage dies.

	The brave are those who can be kind
	And gentle when they try to find
	the answer.
	The English say that violence admits defeat.
	How true, how short, so cutting and so neat.

V.

	When I say Teremce
		Do not accuse me of being a mime.
			I will talk about the moon,
		but I am no poet's parrot.
	So what if there is nothing new to say?
		Can I attempt to say it better?
			No, I will attempt to say it worse.
	I will take the thoughts of men in perfect
	expressiveness and translate to verse.

	I will twist and obscurify and make it far
	harder to pluck the essence.
		That will discourage you.
			Leave me.
				I preach to myself.
					I try to sing myself.
						I will not apologize to Whitman.
	Macleish will not even condescend to look.
		I shall go on to myself.
			You can listen.
			You can try to understand.
			You can argue and rave and rant.
	I will continue the cant.
			Learn me and you have not learned enough.
		Understand me-you still will not understand others.
	You have much time to waste-waste it on me.
		You have not learned enough-I can teach what I
	do not know.
		A wide field to teach from.-Ha.

VI.

	Why don't you go and sleep?
	The world will keep.
	Why do you have to care?
	The answer's never here.

	I love all of you, but go.
	No life is worth the no.
	Let the word be yes.
	Seduction is nought but a guess.

	Love me. Reciprocate
	Love can never be late.
	Soft. Tiptoe round my heart.
	Please-Never is too late to start.

		I see you.
		I see you leaugh.
		The wide mouth. Elflike.
	Tiny perfection. Smile. Sweet
		Laugh so tinkling.
			I love to see a face light up
				with laughter.
	Will you remember? To adore
		is not to know. I must
			know.
	A shadow is not to be loved. Not even
			a laugh. Not even
		a god's laugh. Love me and
			I will smile.