WORD by Jamiu Ahmed


WORD 

How
How do I
How do I start 
Start this poem 
Of scattered words 
With disjointed lines 
forming un-ryhme verses 

How do I start? how do I start? 
This word from a craggy mouth
That travel with the western wind
Forming ripples of resonating waves
Piercing  through the  ears of the wall
like gamma rays, beamed at a metal body

This word isn't a word but a wordy word
That form arrows of a sharp razor edges
Shoot from a blunt bow of a hidden hand
Shattering the heart into shards of glasses

This word is a sweet truth but taste like gall
In the mouth of this world of universal deceit
Where sorrow, agony and tears are sold as joy
And joyful joy become an allusion of life lines

This word is a leaf; that bridge life and death
The strand that holds the existence of living
The chrome wheels  that keep life rolling on
Like a concentric circles that goes on and on
This word is a leaf, the leaf we eat to survive

This word is a mixture of purple and red bloods
That streams into the mouth of the dead oceans
Where we drink wisdom from a casket-like cup
To live and die by the words of the wise nature

This word is a dead man; sobbing in his grave
For it died in our hands, like midnight silence
When we refuse to let the word come alive
In his own prime time of limited existence

This word is the mystery world we live in
Formed from constellations of thoughts
Where night wears solitude owl days
Diving deep in a pool of meditation

This word isn't a word, it's a word
This word isn't a word, but it is it 
This word isn't a word, but it is 
This word isn't a word, but it
This word isn't a word, but
This word isn't a word
For we are the word
The word is not us
The world is us
The word is us
The world is
The word
Is us
Us


© ® Jamiu Ahmed


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