This humanity
blinded
by consumerism,
envy,
ignorance,
bigotry,
selfishness,
greediness,
this blind and deaf
humanity is
addicted to
abused words
and needs
a white cane,
to help it
find
the path.
So, I
collect words.
Used,
broken,
senseless,
dying,
barely breathing,
scared,
vintage words.
Who
out of mercy
will revive
the
single
essential
word
that will be
the white cane
to save
our
humanity?
Say it!
Only left for me is to agree with the wisdom of Mr. Kelly Kurt. Thank you for the poem.-10
I think the word should either be peace or love. Thank you for sharing your poem, Maria.
Thank you for being one of those who try to save so wonderfully the Word! Indeed, peace, love...This is the challenge of our times: save the honour of the WORD!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Your format is so open that each word has a chance to breathe, live, become more than itself. And so the poem is a living thing, a being namely the wounded healer, who is helping others even though he or she needs help, or a person who so identifies with the wounded that he or she has internalized the very wound being treated. OR perhaps the healer is wounded because s/he was careless, or succumbed to temptation. The classic case in literature is AMFORTAS, the healer who is too sick to perform his duties, s/he must humble themself to receive rather than give service. Humility is a hard lesson for a proud person to learn: PULL DOWN THY VANITY, I SAY, PULL DOWN, wrote Ezra Pound, including himself among the repentent sinners. // Your poem is one of radical HOPE: there is healing, there will be a rescue, we have the redemptive word. Time will unfold these things, not Eternity - time, the reality in which we have our human being. Kelly's suggestions of peace and/or love are just fine, but I would add a third - COMPASSION - (quoting Wagner's PARSIFAL) WAIT FOR THE ONE WHO IS CHOSEN: THE BLAMELESS FOOL, MADE WISE THROUGH PITY