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Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed

Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts

A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning


Letters motionless in disarray fighting lost battles lonely at heart

Starved streams of consciousness as a willow weeps in the wind

Seedless dispersion of illiterate drought at the edge of the tree


Reason and feeling disunited under a regime of torturous silence

Not even black ink on charcoal where fire should liberate passion

A scrabble of incongruence submerged under ashes of emptiness 


What if there was no poetry and the writer was shackled and numb

Dead inside an alphabet of syllables refused collaboration and script

Naked to a helpless core of scorched earth void and festering agony


A scribe in handcuffs and the hangman tightening a noose of contempt

For the chorus of voices unable to shout from roof tops and watchtowers

While a tongue tied writer awaits his sentence for the crime of free speech


Drowned in his ink pot like a convicted witch at society’s illegitimate court

Or frying at the stake of burnt books at a show trial of unlettered verdicts

Misunderstood misspelt hung and quartered to the applause of division


A ballade-monger sings his swan song before the apocalypse rules out

The appeal to common sense for an elegist prepared for a final encore

As the final curtain is stuffed in between lips and amphora of metaphors


No one can say that they have not been forewarned of overt perpetration

Were merely following orders to suppress revolutions of evident trespass

That they deemed degenerate what disagreed with a deep currency of fear


And yet if one rhyme survived a single epilog remained on a grave stone

Just one cemetery of unmarked burial sites lived on etched into history

Poetry could not be killed for freedom is much stronger than censure


20th January 2020
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