Hey lovely people! I once watched a spoken word poetry video in which the poet said that sometimes as he wrote/spoke he felt like a stripper; speaking to people he never met before about intimate things in his life. I definitely feel like I'm stripping with this one. I'm not one to write about myself. But something happened of recent that led to this.
If you rolled
my heart out and laid it on a music rack, you would play the symphony of an old
love song.
An embroidery of hidden faces and swallowed words.
It would be
one of those songs that melt your heart.
If you rolled
out my heart and laid it on a music rack, you would find your voice as you
played.
Hear the vivid drums of glistening eyes and thrown back heads.
It would be one
of those moments you just want to scream.
If you rolled
out my heart and laid on a music rack, it would speak words of confusion.
Heartbreaks and
hushed voices.
Tired minds
and empty stories.
Heavy heads
and avoided memories.
Deleted songs
and regretted pictures.
If you rolled
out my heart and laid it on a music rack. The lyrics of my soul would change
you.
You would
look at life through the curtains of wonder and a new kind of fear, or is it love?
You would see
yourself and would not recognize your features.
If you rolled
out my heart and laid it on a music rack. You would rebuke the words that you speak.
Lash out and
recoil.
Run and pray
and run again.
Simply beautiful. Love the opening... The preamble too was good but I definitely love the opening lines.
ReplyDeleteI'll call it stripping behind a veil. A translucent veil to be clear. Saying so much yet too little; keeping the mind that wonders pondering.
Thumbs up.
P.s. Take up art courses. You can only get better.
Thanks alot dear. So much yet too little was the idea :)
DeletePeople if you rolled out my heart and lay it on a music rack.you would find this particular write up running over and over again..keep it up mensu!!!
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Thank you Ninisco! I'm happy you can relate
DeleteThis is so deep and so beautiful Shalom.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Giya :)
DeleteHey shalom. U r a better writter tham me. No body's write up is seen better than urs. I want u 2 knw that i read it everyday keep it up. Lewis.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Lewis. I appreciate!
DeleteDeep!
ReplyDeletemmmh...deep...and for this to come from a 16 year old....Africa has a future....Impressive...just fell in love with your writing
ReplyDeleteAww thank you so much!
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