CONTRARY by Jenim Dibie and Seundede
A stripped shaped star A squared full moon An orange bloodbath A black drawn sky A loud framed silence A hall-famed peaceful pestilence A whole-hearted broken heart A full blown dying rose A blossoming violet beneath calloused feet A kind dentist with my painless premolar A brown teeth with the kindest smile A slashed face with wrinkle drawn From head to thumped heart of the kindest soul A kind word from a broken spirit A darkened light...an enlightened darkness My evil goodness...my goodness hell A trembling hand with a lofty gift A lost one that finds beneath a bitter snow He tries to drink...his frozen water... One broken in all places but her breath The lost finds the lost And in loss, the lost are found In a love that understands just how lost The lost feels when love is wanting And the profundity in being found... ...by none other but a soul who once was lost. Now am found after being lost in a world where all dwellers are lost in their search for happin