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My Name Is Grief | a poem by Mohammed Taoheed 

Photo by Mikhail Nilov

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mixture - a cauldron of cackling cacodemons. winding 

in the eddy of a disembodied funnel, 

like a solitary column of the welkin, 

bent on whirling me into oneness… some alien destination. 

& do not think i flounder. i know this eventual 

oneness is my grief & i cup my hands around it.


neck-deep - the mire yet yielding and yielding

around me. & my notes, dying, can feed no more on my breath

than yours. this serpent, this beast is my grief, i know. 

&, will-less, i travel its devious path; snaking into a sunless 

horizon & arched over by a colourless rainbow of promiscuous

emotions from other travelers of their own peculiar paths.


wraith - I spook the mausoleum of a life lost; of cold dreams

visiting me in spectres of wraithlike nightmares;

but suppose not that I shudder when i see the

icy talons of Death clawing at my carcass therein.


coward - i hope this mother bird will not snarl at me, 

when i cannot defy the piping calls of the eagle;

when she opens her heart and i see only a requiem of regrets.

i am not a failure but a fluid of an anti-dirge.

still in search of the path that runs into the sun

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