Friday, January 30, 2009

The Demise of the Poetic

It was once stated that the ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr,

Hence, I didn’t write these words,

I became them,

Paper, my flesh…

Ink, My blood…

The finished product,

My soul…

With every stroke of the pen, it’s like a slit to the wrist, making my paper and life grow progressively shorter,

The more I write, the more I see the light as if the end were near,

Perhaps I am a martyr,

Who’s found heaven within his notebook, where I die every night for what I believe in…

Or perhaps it is my notebook where I am most alive,

Where the pages of my life are so eloquently scribed-

In pen,

Sometimes wishing that I could erase the past,

But I can’t,

So that makes this poem,

My life,

Who I am.

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