No longer at warA Poem by Opeyemi Jide-OjoShall the earth scald our feet before we learn to move? Move
in the rhythms made by our wandering hearts, the tears flow To
our hands in rapturous ecstasy- We
are accepting realities outside our consciousnesses, and we are wont for the
purging, the cleansing of our souls from the clutter we've clogged it with, There
is absolutely nothing we can do about it, we tell ourselves, and the pains grow
still- Our
hands itch, Our
feet squirm, we are eager for the expression of wordlessness, For
the birth of that that speech cannot utter, Nor
mind fathom, beyond depths of human reasoning, And
the resonation of quavering souls- our dilemma Is
the choosing between the sides- paths of the alone, or paths of the together,
both bearing a long and life ending end- We
become the undoing of ourselves, till we ask the question again: Shall
the earth scald our feet before we learn to move? Shall
we wait till nature falls over, and we in it? Shall
we finally learn to speak without words? Words
are the death of our natures, our morbid instinct, as we die in its
gratefulness- With
our hands we kill our hearts, stopping our thoughts; dead reasons. We
may finally learn to move without words, and our world may be rebuilt from the
dust we buried it in, We
are reborn in ourselves, our hands move to the rhythm of our feet, Our
feet move to the rhythm of our hands, Our
mouths are silent, while our hearts scream all there is to hear- We
are one with our nature, finally, no longer at war, The
earth can turn again- And our hearts, hands and feet beat on. © 2014 Opeyemi Jide-Ojo |
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Added on April 9, 2014 Last Updated on April 9, 2014 AuthorOpeyemi 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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