Rhythm of the Day
Rhythm of the day
Great oniums thunder clouds of midnight rumble, rolling like a baseline of rhythm through the dark, deep night.
Dispensing with the first glint of the morning's colour, and the shrilled chorus of the soon-to-be sunrise of violin light.
My alarm spikes annoyances and inconvenience, interrupting the silence of some momentary and unbroken sleep.
While the remains of dreams are washed away within the shower, cleansed and disappearing through the drainage beneath my feet.
I open the door to the sound of the roaring traffic, witness the battle of wills and footsteps shuffle through the waking day.
Clenched fists, I board the bus in defiance, not always visible, a determined face, a reminder that life is underway.
Past the high rise, stripped back knocked down, modernised skyline, landscaped communities, changing face Man child, Pitt bull Trial bikes, the wheelie pull Bright smiles, right styles Police cars, giving chase Eyes down, phones flipped Read about a stranger clipped Algorithms, clickbait Telling me the world an't great Right wing, Left wing Arms deals, the pendulum swings Wars here, wars there Landmines, prosthetic limbs Penny-pinched, food banks Rich men, they're closing ranks Austerity governments They're lying to your face See the Non-Doms, tax wrongs Politicians, same old songs Strings pulled, chain yanked Situation spun, then blanked X posts, fake news too much information blues Tic Tok, phones down This bus is about to stop.
I step forward into my own thoughts to face the madness, it’s like running a marathon at times I cannot keep the pace.
Distracted for the moment, I hear the sound of children’s laughter, as they are ushered through the playground password-protected school gates.
I'm trying to breathe, but I am suffocating, the information out there feels like someone else's discarded moral waste.
I fight the negativity with my own principles and core values, intrinsically measured, I try to do the right thing and in good faith.
But at times the noise its so overwhelming, and the double standards churn and knotted my stomach to decay.
Until in the distance I hear the church bells sounding, and they remind me of a more peaceful, tranquil, calming, rhythm to the day.
Philip Stevens
Thu 26th Jun 2025 17:49
Don't know what's happened to the formatting. But I think it works.