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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Skin...


Laid over your body,
With crimson lips and a cherry tongue...
A broken voice with softened tones...
A human face,
So similar, so normal...
 
An elastic cover,
That's dry like ice,
A broken vessel,
Filled with tears...
So normal, so human...
 
Sensible feelings,
On a pliable life...
Manic emotions,
In a drifting dream..
A human reality, a different reality...
 
 
A weathering humanity,
Coloured with blood,
Painted hope...
With smeared colors...
A savaged history, A forgotten history...
 
Like our fathers,
We dream of peace...
But like our fathers,
Our innocence falters,
& the human is lost,
To the inhumane...
Just like the past,
We pretend to learn from...
A broken spirit, A lost one...
 
By YOSHITH PERERA


Saturday, July 27, 2013

The anger...

As I volunteer in an area of social work that brings me into contact with cases of domestic violence... I was inspired to write this poem...


The anger...


Your flesh, Nobody's to abuse,
Your bone, Not there's to break,
Your blood, Not there's to spill,
Your soul, Nobody's to keep...
 
 
Your life? Incomparable,
Your choices? No way judged,
The harm, inexcusable...
The silence, a plague...
 
 
Your fears, understandable,
Life? Unbreakable...
Your storms, recovering,
Your spirit, indestructible...


By Yoshith Perera

Friday, July 26, 2013

The crows...

My posting for a FWF prompt...
#FWF Free Write Friday: Time & Place Scenario
 
It’s high noon. Sun blazing. You awake in a field and birds are pecking your skin… GO!


Credit ; Tumblr


 
It's the same dream again, I awake on a sizzling summer day, the sun burning up everything around it while the clouds try to cover up it's face. Birds pecking on my skin, as if I'm a carcass spread across their brunch table. I get up and the birds just keep going at it, undisturbed by my awkward motion. Like always slapping them doesn't help. I keep walking and stumble across a couple in the middle of the field enjoying the dry hot summer day, in each others arms, enjoying their company. All I see is smiles, soft touches and the beginning of foreplay!
 
"Not again" I say to myself and turn away from the 2 bodies partly naked...
 
I wait for the dream to end, cause it's usually at this point that I awake with drenching sweats. But nothing, I'm still here! WTF!
 
I turn to them to see the young blonde trying to grab something out of the shrubs beside her, a rock? She swings it at the unsuspecting fool whose face is completely engaged with her cleavage. He's struck hard on his temple and pushed to a side. His pain overcomes his reflexes for flight as he adopts a foetal position amongst the crop. He finally succumbs to a large rock that is brought down upon his head by the blonde.
 
She searches her immediate surroundings with one vast glance... Probably fearing for any witnesses... She suddenly turns to me and sees me... She walks toward me with a forceful gait. Her face, carefree like this murder wasn't her first. But as she walks toward me, I feel myself shrinking, the birds whom were mutilating me, suddenly gone. And I, simply dressed in clothes from my past, when I was only a boy, when I was only 7...
 
She clothes herself with her final steps toward me, her hair a mess with twigs and dirt, her lipstick smeared and red stains on her neck. She bends down to me and asks... In a happy go lucky pitch, much like a rhyme...
 
"What did you seeeeeeee.....?"
 
 
With tears flooding my eyes and my heart beating as if it must escape from my chest, I reply... "Nothing..."
 
 


Saturday, July 20, 2013

WHAT is LIFE?

 
What is life?
Is it when I wake up feeling like a zombie?
Is it when I know I've had an amazing dream, but can't seem to remember it?
Is it when I mistake my tooth paste for shaving foam...?
 
Life is everyday....
Life was yesterday,
It's tomorrow...
It's yours and mine...
Our hopes and dreams,
Our happiness and tears,
Our emotions and fears...
Is it me or is it life? 
 
Life is when I hit my toe against the living room furniture...
It's also when I start swearing as a direct result...
It is when I dream of so much more,
It is when I fly amongst the clouds...
It is the tears I hold back,
The wrongs I wish right,
It is the hope I hold on to,
It is my picture of might be...
 
It's losing friends,
And gaining others...
It's finding yourself,
Or a lie like that I tell myself...
Life is our parents,
Thinking they know better...
Life is us,
Knowing we know better...
 
 
 
Dreaming of perfection,
And seeing illusions,
Throwing tantrums,
And building castles...
Life is what we want it to be...
Or what we think it should be...
Burying our insecurities
And planting our possibilities...
So is life...
 
Is it really life?
Or is it just an illusion?
All my broken pieces...
Mendable,
All that is me...
Breakable,
I maybe human,
But I do forget sometimes...
That life can storm my dreams...
Or carry me to the heavens at times...
 
This is life...
This is bullshit...
So is life...
A pile of crow shit...
 
By Yoshith Perera


Sunday, July 07, 2013

The journey continues...

When I was done with high school and all ready to embark on my future to China, I was terrified! I remember hugging my family and my dog!! I was super sad about leaving them. I was especially sad about leaving my best buddy, worried he wouldn't be looked after right! Unfortunately life doesn't cover all the bases with regard to growing up, you got to throw yourself into life's clumsy hands and hope it's gonna catch you...
 
When I graduated from university, I was way more freaked out about life... Where it will take me, my single life and especially whether my future was solid or not. Just cause you graduate medical school doesn't mean every things going to turn out awesome. Exams, people and LIFE gets in the way...

Leaving Sri Lanka and coming to Canada was something I was incredibly excited about. I was definitely going to miss my family, my sisters, my best mates and my home, but life is all about change. It's going to give you options, and it's going to make you pick...
 
 
And I picked here... 2 years later, many exams, volunteering and part time jobs later I'm heading back to university... Cause I'm not done learning, I'm not done being a genius! :D :) :) :P

Life's taught me one thing and that is to follow my instincts... To follow my dreams... To follow my yellow brick road... And I'm going to race through that finish line with fireworks! Not cause I'm being an overconfident arse, but because I'm ready to succeed...

"If you wanna change your life, you gotta mould it YOURSELF!!!!!!!!"

So here's to the FUTURE!!!!!

Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Some Moments...

I love photography, simply because it captures such amazing moments... But most of the time, the pictures don't do justice...
Some moments I treasure

Sisters!

The Mole...

Avoiding the ride and the bridge...

Wonderland...

By my window...

So much snow...
Winter moon...


Their moments...

H TWO O..

Draw me...

The sky was calling me...
Lights..


Something so cool...

What a moon...

Nature

Raindrops

Life.. & Me...

Lonely

It's how I saw it...

The SUN

Friends..

...

Sideways...

Feeling good...

Falling...

Driving...

Brothers...

Dusk...

Offerings...

It's me again!