Banishing Boredom...

I now seem to be best pals with boredom
My constant companion it has become

It accompanies me in every waking moment
Thanks to it I know many a meaningless thing
Like the capital of Uzbekistan is Tashkent!

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Denotes a deep fear of long words
It is boredom who introduced me to this ironic idea

But, Boredom can be quite the opposite of fun
It has the knack of depressing me
Nothing seems interesting, good cheer comes undone

Boredom is the restlessness in my fingers
As I flick buttons on the TV remote
So that no channel lingers

Boredom is the curiosity in my mind
As I flip to the end of the book prematurely
A happily ever after to hopefully find

Boredom is the constant distraction
That makes me stare at the computer for hours
Accomplishing nothing, leading no work to completion

Boredom is the absent mindedness
That makes me twirl the telephone wire
While conversations with friends digress

I’ve had enough of this
Be gone oh Boredom!
If it is to be it is up to me, I realize
The day will be what I want it to become

The pen is mightier than the sword they say
I pick it up to fight away my once friend – now nemesis
I will not sit idle – I will make the most of my day
Goodbye to boredom, there will no longer be ignorant bliss.

Befriending Boredom...

I wake up each morning in ignorant bliss
I know not what the day will become,
I am neither happy nor am I glum.

I have nothing to look back on;
I have nothing to look forward to…
I go through the motions, knowing not what to do

I have naught on my agenda –
I take things as they come; I go with the flow
I have neither wish nor will, neither worry nor woe

I live in the present moment;
I live for the present moment…
I care not for the troubles of the world…

No thoughts flow to the future;
I do not make a single plan…
I don’t know where the day will end; I don’t know where it began!

No thoughts stray to the past;
In nostalgia I do not wallow,
Some unkonwn, uncharted path I seem to unconciously follow

In music I seek solace,
In meaningless chatter I find comfort
I see no point in making any other effort…

The day passes by slowly,
Time makes an unhurried progress
Lost I am in nothingness…

Soon the light will fade;
Yet another dreary day will end
Yet another day will dawn for boredom to befriend…

Words and Words are all I have...

I’m tired after a long day
Or I’m a lone traveler on a weary way
Or it’s a day of leisure and laze
Or life seems shrouded in a doleful haze.

When sleep eludes and I lie awake in bed
When stress mounts and troubles I need to shed
When I wish to see the world and travel
When life’s mysteries I wish to unravel

When new people I want to meet
To learn from their experiences so rich
When I wish to satisfy my curiosity of the unreal
To learn more about the ghoul, the ghost, the witch

When I want to be alone, yet lost in a crowd
A book provides the perfect refuge!
I escape into a new world...

My heart beats faster as villains I chase
And it skips a beat when I come across a handsome face...
I hide behind red velvet curtains and witness a ballroom dance
I sigh wistfully at a budding romance

I travel the seven seas and sometimes reach magical lands
I witness unique traditions and long lost customs
I stumble upon ghastly plots and cruel plans
I am lost in another world – dragged in by the story
Romantic, dramatic, action-packed or even gory...

Then just when I am in the midst of an engrossing episode
Events all around come to silent standstills
Everything seems to fall apart, slowly erode
As all disappears into nothingness, unease within me fills...

Confused I stare at the word that has me stumped -
Quagmire, Ostentatious, Perambulate, Juxtapose
Supercalifragilisticexpliadoious...
I could reach for a dictionary, I suppose...