Motion Pictures

I

remember the story told

Before success brought dignity

Before dignity became immunity

Before I earned a name in my community

The flashes come passing like slides

of motion pictures

In the ’90s my guardian's generation had the voice

But now the button stick has turned to a sceptre

The legacy still lives and the glory shouts

The morals flowing into the veins of new shoots

Saturated leaves transforming green into a glow

These are the motion pictures of nurturing

In my basement there's nothing much to see,

Not that there's nothing inside

But the same old pictures we once exhibited.

I cannot keep up with the external world

which is ever changing on morality

So I wonder as I ponder inside a world

I created in my mind for my emotional recuperation.

These are the motion pictures,

the stories which bring a combination of light

and darkness,

like negative and positive bringing beauty and harmony

The process of combining two abstract forces

to create a single outstanding joint

The use of negative and positive effects to

create a beautiful motion picture.

I remember the story told before

It's the extension of the story you hear this day

Now the story has occupied space

in my conscience, it's the elegance

taking me out of the blue to the Dreamland.

If mud can be moulded into a beautiful clay pot

an experience can be learned from

changing circumstances to be favourable.