The Mantra

Paul Bell

5 am, you woke me up, to meditate.

 

 I thought someone had died, someone had, me.

 

 It was the ultimate time, you said.

 

 Looking down, I had to disagree.

 

 Can you feel the energy, she said?

 

 I can’t feel myself, go away.

 

 This is a window of opportunity, she said.

 

 There was a window.

 

 Let us breathe, she said.

 

 This had never happened before, nutcase came to mind.

 

 What is your mantra, she said.

 

 What is my name, I said.

 

 No, you have to reach out, draw in the energy.

 

 I am going to reach out; it won’t be pretty.

 

 Let me take you on a journey, join me.

 

 I’ll phone you a taxi, blast, it’s your house, I’ll phone me a taxi.

 

 If we connect, the sex will be out of this world.

 

 Okay, through the delirium I heard the S word

 

 Mm, mm feel it, Mm, mm, feel it, Mm, mm, can you feel it.

 

 I can definitely feel something.

 

 It’s getting stronger, we are one.

 

 We definitely are.

 

 We must connect.

 

 We definitely must.

 

 Before my husband comes off the night shift.

 

 Thought I heard the H word there.

 

 Let us be one.

 

Let us wind back to the husband.

 

 He is but a component in time.

 

 What time does this component come home at.

 

 Six, but it’s okay, he’s gay.

 

 Thought I heard the G word there.

 

 He likes to join in, which can be a pain.

 

 When you say join in, what do you mean.

 

He likes to join in 

 

In the mantra.

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  • Mutley Ravishes

    This is seriously
    Funny, Paul!

    • Paul Bell

      Meditating is a serious business. LOL

    • Teddy.15

      lol you just put me me in my very own mediative mood just in time for my shift! 🤣

      • Paul Bell

        You\'ll be flying at work.

      • sorenbarrett

        Another smile Paul this could be a complicated menage a trois where singing is required. A good read my friend

        • Paul Bell

          He sure wasn't singing. lol

        • rebellion_in_sanity

          Love your style. It stands apart because of the absence of - 'here cometh the poet sumpreme'

          • Paul Bell

            All in the meditation.

          • Friendship

            Your poem explores themes of connection, intimacy, and the complexity of relationships through a humorous and somewhat surreal dialogue about meditation and sexual energy. It juxtaposes spiritual practices with everyday life, leading to unexpected revelations about desire and human connection.

            • Paul Bell

              The days when sex was simple.

            • Tristan Robert Lange

              This is clever, Paul. The mantra structure lulls the reader even as the situation unravels, and the dialogue keeps tightening the psychological pressure. Funny, disturbing, and very controlled. Well done. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦‍⬛

            • Doggerel Dave

              Calm now…you are on a journey…on your way to enlightenment…no… there’s a certain element of resistance there… how can you possibly compare a journey in a taxi to the delights which await you on your journey there……?
              Could tell ya but it’s for each to take their own journey…

              • Paul Bell

                There's enlightenment and there's five in the morning.

                • Doggerel Dave


                  …And there’s the sixties, where I come from with its smatterings of liberation but also populated by some personages who considered themselves (plus a small coterie of followers) as a cross between JC and Buddha and dispensed large doses of enlightenment in a half consensual copulative way….
                  Now look what you’ve done - you triggered me….

                • Thomas W Case

                  This is darkly funny and unsettling in the best way—mania, manipulation, and menace bleeding through deadpan dialogue.
                  It walks the line between farce and threat, and that tension is exactly what makes it stick.

                  • Paul Bell

                    Was the quickest coming that year, and nobody mentions mantras to me any more.

                  • NafisaSB

                    thankfully no such people around me...lol

                    • Paul Bell

                      I can arrange a visit. lol

                      • NafisaSB

                        thanks, but no thanks ....
                        have a good day..



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