BACK TO THE ROOT

 

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By Josh Pampam

 

 

This is for the gray hair, which is but a pack of

wrinkled claws, crawling in the face of life.

 

This is for the blue face, which is but the brittle

breeze, booting about in the summer night.

 

This is for the marble, which is but a soft knife;

whose plans bubble on soap-soaked water.

 

This is for them, who are pressed like grapes

in a winepress by the rocks of responsibility.

 

This is for them, who are fed every dawn

with words like palm oil through a hot pan.

 

This is for you, who see a reflection of yourself

in these lines, and wish to be delivered.

 

This is for the brave, bold and boned,

primed to turn inward for a change of situation.

 

If you'd be mute, and go back to your root,

to review, re-plan and reshape your route.

 

Then, your eyes will part ways with the darkness

dragging your psyche in a circular motion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Josh Pampam is a Hairstylist who fell in love with poetry after his High school days and writes it in his leisure time. He's from Ota, in Ogun State, Nigeria. His poems have been featured in Cathartic lit, Spillwords, Praxis online magazine, Writers Space lit mag, etc. He is currently working as a moderator for an online Poetry Institution. In his leisure time, if Josh is not writing poems, he's reading them. Facebook: Josh Pampam. Twitter: @Josh_pampam. Instagram: @joshwealth16