The morning does its danceA Poem by Opeyemi Jide-OjoThere shall be no words And
there shall be times of silence, periods where the dark seeps through the veins
of those left alive after the coming spit-out, When
the end of systems come to be, for the rebirth of all that should be, And
there shall be no words, for words should cease to be the communicating medium, And
he that shall that speak shall be like the tree, never speaking, though he say
a thousand words per leaf drop- There
shall be no words, No
pride of voice and speech, we should enjoy the silence of the dark, The
sweet soothing sense of freedom we should enjoy in the peace of solitude-
solitudes of peace- There
shall be no words, there shall be no words, There
shall be no words, The
earth shall ring with the sound of nothing, Nothing
is its central seal, and the seal of everything, For
all that shall be has been and will forever dwell in the fortress of silence, This
is the future of existence, and the silent shall be with power not known, Thrones
set in the kingdoms of fortune, There
shall be no words. Words
shall be forbidden; language of the silent, There
shall be no words, and all that shall be heard will be echoes, Echoes
of what once was, It
lives in dreams, in memories, in whispers, But
there shall be no words, so no whispers. In
the end, there shall be words, but words will have a new form, Fluid
in grace, sublime in strength, with the full force of nature behind them; The
words shall come from a new set of people, a people born from silence, Having
tasted of the dark, they now know the glory of words spoken in silence, Non
vocal sentences loudly spoken in our sight, For
we shall see the words ere we hear them, We
will answer before we hear the call, For
our eyes become ears and our hearts become eyes- They
will speak with their feet, scream with their hands, Twist
their souls in rapture; bear their hearts in deep grace, They
exit the night and all of its dreams, waking to the joyful reality of the
present- The
future is bound in their feet, borne on their backs, As
they fly to the sun; We
are at peace. There
shall be no words, And
there shall be no words, Then
there shall be words, lots of them, Spoken
with our feet, To
the listening of our eyes and our hearts- There
shall be no words, Then the words that shall be will come. © 2014 Opeyemi Jide-Ojo |
StatsAuthorOpeyemi Jide-OjoAbuja, Lagos, NigeriaAboutI am a poet, dancer and choreographer I enjoy weaving strands of fantasy with strands of reality to see what beautiful creations come from it. I could get dark sometimes (many times actually); matter .. more..Writing
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