Warm the bright sun
cloudless azure sky
wholly relaxed am I
feeling like a million,
when a sudden storm
oddly upsets the day
is this also the way,
that one might say
we humans interact.

For periods of time
peacefully inclined
calm and logic reign
time prior the storm;
senses, minds alarm,
a sudden call to arms
hormones, adrenaline,
we do an about face,
fiercely trash around
pointing fingers shout,
perhaps sacrificial lambs,
whether family or friends
fully blaming them for our
very own mistakes, what
'swings' in error or vain
we thus so often take.

Herbert Holzbauer
© April 2005

Midi: "Uramachi Jinsei"
(ingeb.org)

Art: "Moods"
Artist: Chris Carrick
(www.almostabstract.freeuk.com)