I am not the worst of a kind
I am to be a man of goodness
A chance of humanity
That justifies, man from beast.
But still the priest, with symbolic figure(s )
Will not hear my confessions;
In closed doors, behind curtains, he says
“he did not sign up for this, reversed juicy hear”
My sub conscience comes to life
In the early hours of dawn
When all that is heard
Is the Owl's call in surrealisms of hall ways
In strange sounds, of stress awakening
In near distance background
Like human cry, haunted
Intimately heard in echoes
In the early years,
Of a new day's birth
When the earth manages
To catch a breath,
Before the voice of man, is heard again,
Turning words in juicy spin, bashing verses
Distorting in coded fragmentation
Diffusing reasons, with blurred versions
And still to confess to the deafness of hear
The blindness of sight
Be the one to carry your burden
I don't want to know, I am only human
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Nice work Kodjo!
ReplyDeleteSensitive...painful...bittersweet.
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Complex, moving, and very well written.
ReplyDeleteThere is a compelling sadness to this piece. The words hurt the reader and frustrate in their hopelessness.
ReplyDeletep.s. May I suggest breath instead of breathe?
Sheilagh Lee said:this has deep seeded sadness in it.Bravo kodjo great poem
ReplyDeleteSomeone out there always hears..Jae
ReplyDeletesad, but there's something about this poem that stays with you.
ReplyDeletefantastic poem kodjo. very beautiful work.
ReplyDeletetrisha
http://sharmishthabasu.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/stress/
powerful highlight...
ReplyDeleteA++
So pain ....you have expressed it wonderfully...
ReplyDeleteThe tale in poem is intense as I had said earlier.
ReplyDeleteI liked the blunt retaliation part a lot!
Wishing you a beuatiful week ahead
xox
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