Showing posts with label Trust Tonji. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trust Tonji. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Trust Tonji writes



A place of no tears

Somewhere in the beginning
of a dark road
Behind every sunglasses
are eyes as red as fiery coals

A tear just fell
on a recently deceased
then another.... and another
Until it feels like the woman
on the sick bed is sweating

But hot tears don't hurt
people with no breath

The man that drowned
did not die of cold,
he died of water
Water stole his breath
before death took him away
to meet peace in a land
where tears don't fall like rain
on the memory of a boy
whose mum never waited
to say goodbye.
 
 Drowning Artist 4 -- Linnea Strid





Monday, May 23, 2016

Trust Tonji writes


THE INVISIBLE


I have seen. . .
Negative comments
make
Negative impacts
cultivating negativity
in a once positive mind

For ages,
I have seen. . .
the subtle effects
of negativity
revealed in minds,
hidden in visages

After all
I have seen. . .
words shot
like gun shots
weakening the
recipients to a fall

I have seen. . .
togetherness
divided, broken
to pieces,
and blown away
by the wind,
without a hope
of re-combination

and

I have seen. . .
Victims of broken spirit
walking about
without broken legs
and friends who love
with their whole heart
opening their whole eyes
wide, but seeing nothing
on the other end
Besides their good friend
Gentle and mild
walking in style

One can see a broken knee
and a cut down tree
But a broken spirit
How can one see?
 

 
 shattered tree quilt pattern