[POETRY SERIES 001] LETTER TO MY DAD: Broken Words To The World Beyond

Letters To My Dad is a series of four to five lines poems that narrates the griefs of a deceased child in letters— Pawners Paper

POETRY SERIES: Letter To My Dad

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Dad,

Dirges are songs with wet lyrics

Emerging with broken voices and endless void,

When the earth swallows a soul

And memories are engraved in the passing wind

Dad,

The colors in the sky fades

When the news broke

—The eyes could weep now

And the voice could sing the Willow song

Dad,

The papers are cowards

Too sacred to embrace the kisses of the pen

—For written alphabets

Are too earthy to express ghostly thoughts

Dad,

My heart breaks

My thought shakes

My mind fades,

—My morn might not wake

Dad,

I swore an oath with the colours

To reveal the secrets mirrors couldn't unravel

It showed me nothing, and hugged me

For I was bleak— I'll fade soon

Dad,

Can I tell you a secret?

Adanna!— He told me a secret

—He didn't die 

For he was never alive

Dad,

What happens when the Ravens surrounds

A man with shattered thoughts?

What happens when the vultures watches

A man crawling in the land where foods and water are scarce?

—Does the end come riding with death?

Dad,

I'm lost- for I wander like a man of no name

Whose sanity was sold without his consent

I'm drowning, for I wallow in this dark sea of depression

And my thoughts are like blown ashes

For they never become whole even when I tried

Dad,

I end with silence on my lips.