You think you are
courageous
but at best
you have confused
your irrational fears
with reality & cultivated them.

Now you let yourself be
called a contrarian
& believe that
compassion is
out of place
like empathy
for those who are
really in need
the #brave rebels
against oppression
& ignorance

#MastoPrompt
Thanks to @tanweerdar

#LyriX

Photo: Interference, 2022

#smartphonography
#glitch
#XianePhoto

Who is the one
that might wish to
obliterate the sun

as he cannot
stand to stare into
the bright

while someone who
already is shadowed
by an observer

may think
he would
disappear

in the absence
of
the light?

Photo: Bright, 2018

#smartphonography
#XianePhoto

#MastoPromt
#obliterate
#LyriX

Even if
all doors of heaven
were wide #open,
what use would this be
to the world

As long as
one human being
slams the door
in the face of another
human being in need

As long as
hearts remain
closed

#MastoPrompt
#lyriX

Awaiting
An epiphany to unveil
Until twelfth night
Still we sigh
Under the discrete
Light of #dawn
While darkness prevails
We are drawn into dreams
Full of melancholy
Into moonstruck madness
At times
Or we try to escape
By means of fatalism
Which may bring us down
To earth
Making
this disappointment bearable

Xiane Sierocka-Stock

Photo:
Dream Into The New Year, 2018

#smartphonography
#glitch
#MastoPrompt
#lyriX #dawn

In einem Nu, 2022

Just submerging in time
Lost in the moment
Disappeared in a blink
Gone in a flash
Those ones so
Self-assured

Jiffy faded
All in
All

#smartphonography
#lyriX
#XianePhoto
#poetry