The Muse

There exists a universe where I'm known as Lima. You aren't allowed there.
There exists another universe in which Lima walks. You are already here.
You have entered because you can appreciate style while ignoring content. You had been warned.
P.S. Don't bash me up if you find haiku or plain prose here.

Thursday, April 25, 2019

오세호 (Oh Se-ho)

Oh you poor broken boy
Raised by a tyrant
In a gilded cage

Oh father of this hateful man
Who follows his hateful parent
In a misguided rampage

Alas, alas! O destroyer you
Betrayer of friends
And teacher's woe

May 복수's 복수*
Not fail to reclaim your soul
May he further your goal

Dedicated to the antagonist of the drama My Strange Hero (aka Bok-su is back, 복수가 돌아왔다)

*pronounced Bok-su, it is the protagonist's name, and means 'revenge' in Korean

Thursday, January 31, 2019

State of mind

Many screeds I read
Many creeds I repeat
Regardless of their merit I pay them heed
Ideas come and go in on a two-way street
My theories of everything will never be complete

In deep waters I hide
In deep waters I reside
The burden of this ocean I carry inside
Stirred by currents and eddies and the shifting tide
My mind is an arena where these thoughts collide

The tides of fiction, currents of affairs
With notions abstract
And pretensions of fact
They seek my attention, they give me nightmares
I cannot go without
They're all I think about

So I drown myself in vice
And my body pays the price
I can tolerate this pain
At least I'm not insane

(Sung to the tune of Gasoline, by Halsey)