You feel heart-sick because there is a complete lack of poetry in your life? I feel you! And you’re too lazy to actually read poems? I feel you. Click to listen to my first ever recorded poem.
*Originally published on Kpoetry, where my poetry dwells.
Find the verses below, if you prefer to check out your own rhythm first.
https://soundcloud.com/lucakramis/five-brothers-gone-by-luca-kramis
Five brothers
Born in utopia
Grew to manhood
Became magnificent individuals
Paradise did not suffice
They left the realm of oneness
One by one
Were prone to crave
Could not understand
Off they went, adventurers, bold
The eldest brother
Born to strength
Grew to size
Became a warrior
Inheritance did not suffice
Marched to conquer the universe
He dreamt big
Was bound to fail
Soon he died
Not in battle, he starved
The second brother
Born to wisdom
Grew inbound
Became a monk
The calm did not suffice
Swam to the bottom of the oceans
Aimed at dharma
Caused karmic swings
He meant to drown in divine perfection
The bubble popped underway, restart
The middle brother
Born to mindfulness
Grew to inspire
Escaped all cravings
Had all and more in abundance
Physically bound, a mind afloat
Never left utopia
Never really arrived
When old age unfollowed his body
No memoirs were written, nowhere
The fourth brother
Adopted from strangers
Grew to fierceness
Became a merchant
No goods could ever suffice
Ever grinding, striving for ever more
Ever moving, ever richer
Nothing to be found
He left on a stroke
Nothing stayed, naked
The youngest brother
Born to shrewdness
Grew to effectiveness
Became an advisor
No master’s savvy could ever suffice
Living up to any challenge
Wanting to outdo them all
Made his sponsors inquisition
He was burned on a cross
The phoenix was not reborn
Five brothers
Died scattered
Left this world
Left untold legends
Paradise did not suffice
They chose aloneness
Set to discover
What cannot be found
Could not understand
Off they went, imploded, gone
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