Throw away your papers tonight
 put aside your pen
 let your fingers
 write on my body,
 an empty page
 a word,
 a sentence,
 write a poem
 if your syntax hurts my skin
 if I sigh, if I moan
 just tighten your embrace
 if your fingers stammer
 dip them in darkness
 and start again
 fill up my margins
 suffocate me with your grammar
 proofread the madness
 you have created
 erase with your lips
 any mistakes
 your fingers make
 read to me
 what you have written
 see the pages of my life
 come alive
 in your fingers
 tonight.

Reading this poem one feels the words changing to music much like the run of the fingers on piano keys. A beautiful poem where the poet invites the reader, as it were, to leave alone the unidimensional monochromatic world of words and move over to the speechless reality of existence where life vibrates in truth and beauty. The poet asks the reader to abandon language and words as the vehicle of communication and get on with life and living.

Rina Singh is M.A. in Creative Writing an a teacher in Canada.

— P. G. Murthy

Links

There’s a short biography at http://www.edu.yorku.ca/~WIER/rina.html