Ruminance
Here he stands
at a junction between two worlds
where his identity is currencied in accents,
locked between the dream and the stark reality.
Here, a man's worth is shrouded in ashen dust-
the dregs of metal on wood and paper-
while all around, the shrill
of discordant metal belts
whip his senses into a ruminance
of the dying embers
of a once monumental ambition.
But wait; a glimpse- a gleam of a movie title,
a lop-sided grin of a famous actor long dead-
refreshes him with life's mystery: That, Art
which seeks to imitate life, outlasts the real thing by eons.
(©Johnson Arloo.
March,2012.
Huntsville, Alabama.
at a junction between two worlds
where his identity is currencied in accents,
locked between the dream and the stark reality.
Here, a man's worth is shrouded in ashen dust-
the dregs of metal on wood and paper-
while all around, the shrill
of discordant metal belts
whip his senses into a ruminance
of the dying embers
of a once monumental ambition.
But wait; a glimpse- a gleam of a movie title,
a lop-sided grin of a famous actor long dead-
refreshes him with life's mystery: That, Art
which seeks to imitate life, outlasts the real thing by eons.
(©Johnson Arloo.
March,2012.
Huntsville, Alabama.
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