Entropy of Society

The psyche
Of the normal man
Is fractured by the
Predatory scene without,
The turmoil of the soul within
Caught in this surrealistic
Madhouse of existence turns
Man evermore neurotic
By facing the increasing
Complexity of a too fast
Moving world heading
Towards entropy...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Hope

To dream, pray and hope
Carries us through
And helps us to cope...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Jeweler's Epitaph

The hand which shaped
The noble ore
From this day on
Shall shape no more,
The mind creating
Subtle beauty
Forever more shall
Cease to do his duty,
His work is done,
But gone is the creator,
All that is left now
Is his art and the moderator.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Undecided

She is subtle and charming
And very discreet
And her answers are compact,
Precise and quite neat
But her eyes have a soulful
And passionate glare
And whatever is said
Seems intriguingly fair.
Can it be that beneath
An upper crust
Lives a hot shadow
Which may burn me to dust?
Pray, answer me
In all fair esteem
What precisely thy nature
Might be or has been.
If what seems apparent is true,
I'd never want anyone else but you,
But if the shadows hold true
Which dwell deep beneath,
I beg you, my flame,
Just let me leave,
For my wings are delicate,
My soul sensitive,
And never again
My heart I could give.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Nothingness

Out of a tiny cell,
Created in passion,
A human being is born,
Out of the singularity
Of one condensed atom
The universe exploded,
Out of nothingness
Worlds are shaped,
Only to sink back
Into the black holes
Of nothingness
Without purpose,
Without meaning...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Best of all Lives...

Of the best of all
Possible lives we dream,
We hope, we struggle
And we scheme
But only the very best,
With luck and will,
May reach the crest,
Most others will fall
By life's side,
Swept into the humdrum
Of the ordinary tide...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

To be or not to be

I think - therefore I am,
If I think not,
There is no I - just rot...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Of Human Bondage

A loss of freedom is their fate
When human bondage
Ties people to religion
And the state,
Thus, to chauvinism
And prejudice converted,
A normal population
Turns perverted
And then is swept up in a tide
Of wars and genocide.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Take care...

Guard your passions
With common sense
For today's love
Maybe tomorrow's grief.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Melting Pot - New York

A kaleidoscopic vision
Of humanity,
In this magnificent Athens
Of the Western world, New York,
Where East meets West
And all the nations
Of the world congregate
To light a shining
Beacon of success
For all the world
To admire and emulate,
Where science, art
And literature
Proclaim the cosmopolitan
Avant garde of existence
In the golden city
Of the future
And a melting pot of talents
Opens a plethora
Of unlimited possibilities.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

The Military-Industrial Complex

The military-industrial complex
Has gotten out of hand,
Backed by a corporate
Robber barons' band,
Facilitated by lobbyists' seduction
And congressional corruption,
Backed by an unfit 'president',
Our very worst White House resident,
If we continue in this vein,
China will take the world's reign
And our future will be dire
Like the fall of the Roman Empire.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Religious Folks

They go to churches, mosques
Or synagogues each blessed day,
To all three gods, thus,
Do they fervently pray
To make absolutely sure
Of their heavenly sinecure,
A common sickness
Which is hard to cure.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Existentialism

All of us are people
In a rudderless boat,
Blown about
By the winds of chance
On the stormy sea of life,
With nothing above
And nothing below,
Neither gods to appeal to
Nor devils to fear
In an uncaring universe,
And in our quiet desperation,
The only way to ease our burden
Is to love each other
And make goodness our divinity.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

High Society

We are high society,
Not nouveau rich
With earnings merited
But of old, noble stock
With fortunes inherited,
We never work,
We never toil,
We prosper on investments,
Real estate and oil
And our minorities
Fight our wars
For 'flag and soil'
While our kids
Are well protected,
For war services
Never selected
And our leaders
Dance to our tune
Or they're are apt to lose
Their sinecure real soon.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Lovers

In our cottage
Meant for two,
We'll nestle together,
Just I and you
For nothing else
For us would do
Till I may find
Somebody new.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Doctor L.L. - Malpractice Specialist

He is a butcher of renown,
A surgeon, cutting up
In his green gown,
To patients
And insurance companies
He is a bane,
His patients all wind up
Quite dead or lame.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Maiden's Plea

More than you know,
I love you so,
More than you'll ever know
I yearn for your touch,
You set my heart aglow,
You are my sun, my star,
My moon, my life,
It's just too bad
You have a wife.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Hot Babe

She's a hot babe,
Goes from hand to hand
With a libido
Which never seems to end,
Burned out many a man,
Leaves them broken and bent.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

The Human Condition

From a favorable reception
To a successful conception,
With two people mated,
Hopefully unrelated,
A new being is created
Who could turn into a president
Or an asylum resident,
Whatever fate is theirs to be
In life's strange lottery,
Then, after some laughter,
Tears and lust,
They meet their destined fate
And turn to dust
As all poor mortals must...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

The Public be Damned

Frankly, those politicos,
Be they democratic or republic,
Don't give a damn
For John Q. Public,
They only do their very best
To feather their own nest
And be absolutely sure
Of their own do-nothing
Lifetime sinecure.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Toy

Although I give you joy,
I'll never be your toy...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Maggots

Trillions of stars
Span the universe
And speculations on gods
Favoring man on little earth
Are quite perverse,
While men persist
In warring about gods
Who don't exist,
Perchance, man is the maggot
Cleaning a dying planet's rot.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Fickle Ladies

Seems, I've heard this story before,
It's from an old familiar score,
She loved me with a passion once
But now, she shows me the door,
For a woman's soul is a fickle thing,
So, brother, take care
Before you give her the ring.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Confessions to a Husband

I must make confessions
On my many transgressions,
But please, forgive me, my love,
One man for me is just not enough
For an oversexed lady addicted to love,
Frankly, I'm all our kids mother,
But the father - he maybe some other.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Sin

Sin gives life
A piquant flavor,
Virtue does
Someone else
A favor.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Young to Old

Those were the glorious days
Of vibrant, youthful folly
When life was full of wonder
And times were happy - jolly,
But then the middle years
Sobered with stark reality
And in the very end,
Old age was life's fatality.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Blues

Paid to lost love my dues
And now I'm left with the blues
When the love of my life
Gave me the news:
"Too long, dear man, did you tarry,
Your good friend John will I marry."

I'm now an old bachelor,
Paid to lost love my dues,
Running on empty
And left with the blues.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Arabs and Jews

If Arabs and Jews
Could only cooperate,
To blooming deserts
They'd open a golden gate,
A new and better Middle East
They would certainly create,
With Arab oil and Jewish intellect
A paradise they could select,
Ending wars and old neglect...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Out of the Box

To think out of the box
Is the creative spirit's way
Where new ideas may grow,
Perchance, to stay,
Thoughts never explored before
Open to novel dreams the door.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Arafat's Casino

"But we are cousins",
Arafat ventured to say,
"Don't keep our Jewish cousins
From my casino away,
Send them over to pay and play,
After all, good, old Abraham
Was both our tribes' dad,
We have the same Semitic blood,
So - don't be mad...".

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

John F. Kennedy

Good night - sweet prince,
Sleep well through
All the morrows,
Fondly remembered
In our sorrows
As a presence - so fair,
As a presence - so rare...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

It Seems...

What seems to you and me
May not be what it appears to be
Depending on the direction
Of our selective perception
For we live in ignorant bliss
In a world which seems
But never really is...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Failed Leader

Vetoed health insurance
Causes our children to die,
For our fallen soldiers
Many mothers cry,
Killed in a futile war
Based on a lie,
While galloping inflation
Ruins our nation,
With our workers into
Unemployment forced
By labor outsourced,
And we can squarely blame
A leader without
Decency and shame,
A chap lacking class and brain,
By special interests selected
And fraudulently elected
Who should be impeached
And promptly ejected.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

The Temple Dancer

The temple dancer
Has me in her thrall,
She dances near
The temple wall,
For her incantations
I start to fall,
Yet, if I follow
Her siren call
To dance with her,
Into the nether world
I might fall...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Land of Shadows

The land of shadows
Lies in wait
Beyond life's closing gate,
We never know
Just where or when
We'll meet our cruel fate
For only chance
Provides the place and date...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

In Monte Carlo

Escaping the city's bustle,
They met on a vacation
For a bit of recreation,
But they did really care
And their interlude
Turned into a torrid love affair,
But she had a husband
And he had a wife,
So, they grudgingly returned
To their boring, staid life.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Naval Son

My mom loved
All the sailors on the sea
And one of them created me,
Never found out
Which one it could be,
Thus, I am a very lucky lad
For the whole navy is my dad.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Haunting

Though sixty years have passed,
The horror haunts me yet,
Auschwitz, the gas, the ovens,
All those innocent dead
And often, at night,
I wake in a cold sweat
After nightmares and dread
About those six million
Forced to suffer and die,
Whose smoke
Still clouds my sky...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

The Human Condition

It's still the same old song,
People fight and never get along,
One is always right,
The other always wrong,
Causing wars, death and misery
Throughout eons of history
Up to the first till the second
World war conflagrations
When 54 million died
In all participating nations
Till the cold war episode
Which ended on a peaceful note
Followed by the Islamic revolution,
Caused by chauvinistic hubris,
With, so far, no resolution,
And when this one is over,
An other conflict will come along,
It'll be the same old song
Till it will all end
In a nuclear blast
Through which
No living soul will last.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

To Stanley K.

A fine physician
With a brilliant mind,
A decent man,
Caring and kind,
In nature's election
Its very best selection,
A dear friend - in deed,
A dear friend - in need.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Waiting for God

The people stand and wait
For some second coming
At life's gate,
And thus, they'll stand forever
Hoping for phantom gods
To show up - never...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Sausages

My name is Lulu Belle Lee,
I was a top stuffer
In a sausage factory,
But then my boss changed
My employment scene
By buying a stuffing machine,
All computerized and wired,
Thus, my job expired
And I was suddenly fired
But due to my sausage expertise,
I could do as I please
Anf found a perfect solution
Working diligently
In prostitution.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

America in Trouble

Galloping inflation
Choking the nation,
The dollar is way down
In a land and economy
Led by a retarded clown.

Oil prices are going up
Without any stop,
While our infrastructure
Is in a rapid drop,
Our industries - gone,
Found in China a new home,
And we print currency - galore,
To be spent in a futile war
On some distant shore
Where our boys daily die,
Never know the reason why.

If there are gods up in the sky,
They'll surely say:
"Those crazy Yankees are on a high,
Better ring a warning bell
Before their country goes to hell."

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Smile

Always smile
And never look sad,
Though your heart
Is breaking
And you feel real bad,
It's all appearances
In a world gone mad...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Love Song

I'm dancing with you
Into the heavens above,
We two - like hand in glove,
Into the seventh heaven of love,
The earth sinks away,
Amongst the stars we'll stay,
With sex - just sublime,
And feelings - divine...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Jewish Heritage

It certainly is not news
That Christianity and Islam
Were spawned by the Jews,
Thus, Abraham and Jesus
For their religion
Paid their dues
When they opened the gate
Through their Jewish faith,
So, one should gather
That Christians and Moslems
Would honor their Jewish father.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

!929

Got no future,
Have no past,
And the present
Moves too fast,
I'm homeless,
Cannot last,
Live on the street,
Freezing body,
Icy feet,
Spend my time
Begging for a dime...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz

Genocide

The Turks desperately deny
The Armenian genocide
Which they try to hide
By claiming it's a lie
That millions had to die
Because the very same Turks
Want to do the same to the Kurds
But the world will not stand by
To watch an other Holocaust try.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz