Checkmate

Russian chess masters
train backwards their moves
on the board to improve 
their game's strategy.
They seem to have an edge
on their worldwide counterparts.

I ask myself: 
Why don't we play in quick motion 
the full movie of our life
and witness the final moment of strife?

In any case, checkmate will occur 
and some things will remain undone:

Unless Death and I settle for
a surprising gentlemen's draw.

Another angle

The shadow is but our light seen from another angle.

Ritz night shift

I am dreaming of a lush Sussex landscape
wrapped around the early morning's mist.
The river nearby would bend through
the capricious veins of this land.
I smell a lofty English breakfast brought in
on a silver platter by a  curvacious maid.
And a distant bell is echoing in my ears:
A disgruntled client tapping at my reception desk's bell
to complain about a maid in the corridor
singing out loud a Verdi aria with a shrill voice
at half past five in the morning.

Vertical blue

Nothing is horizontal or
straightforward as it seems.
Everything, even pain, is 
a means to keep you wandering
off the real essence.
You are the owner of the Self:
Look up! There is no Paradise!
Look down! No Hell to haunt you!
Only a bold vertical dive
into the blue within will 
free you and give you wings.

Showtime

The hectic vibes of 
the metropolis
slowly smother their 
blue and white collar 
deafening sounds.

I say:
Turn on the spotlights!
It's show time!

And my night creatures 
crawl out from the dark 
to claim their stardom. 

There was once a sea...

I close my eyes and I see
what was once me.
And is no more now.
I was here on this spot, 
I had laid down the bedrock 
of my soul's journey.
I took an oath to serve and protect
the less fortunate, my brothers.
And I did. I traveled light.
So I return empty handed,
but heart and soul are whole.
I come full circle.
Something shifted the stone 
farther down the path:
It must have been the strong
currents of a sea that once 
existed in this forsaken land:
Its does not matter now.
Home is all the space there is.  

Walk in the unknown

When shifting
from comfort to 
the misty and untamed 
territories of your life, 
don't hesitate:
Dive fearlessly within!
Insights and discoveries
are far more exciting
than an overly 
repeated roundabout 
scheme.