The Word To Say
(i)
Hello, I say with silence,
but you don't seem to hear;
I'm close, i say with distance,
to you I'm all but near.
Hello, I say with words,
but you can't read through lines;
I'm scared, I say with smiles,
to you, I must be fine.
Hello, I say to others,
but that word was meant for you;
I'm all right, I say to everyone,
do you also think it's true?
Hello, I say,
but still you don't reply;
hello, I shout,
hello, I cry.
Hello, I wave with hands,
but they're shaky desperate, weak;
I have no air in me to breathe,
look, listen when I speak.
Hello, I say to you,
but you hear and turn away;
hello I scream and scream again -
is goodbye the word to say?
(ii)
Goodbye I breathe with silence,
but still I see you there,
as though my mute confusions
were a signal that I care -
as though my form of leaving
were a toothless paradigm,
and not a painful putsch
against the tyrannies of time.
Goodbye I say to minds
you greet, but the word was meant for you;
I have no time for gland hellos,
I wonder that you do.
Goodbye I say.
yet you remain;
goodbye but, oh.
your're there again!
Goodbye my gingers sign,
but they're shaky, desperate weak;
I have no air in me to breathe,
I have no room to speak.
Goodbye, I shout in turn,
but you still don't turn away;
goodbye, I scream and scream again -
is hello the word to say?
Copyright © Yazmin Malik | Year Posted 2018
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