POETRY

POETRY

Shadows exist.
Open your mouth and swallow them.
Syllable after syllable. 
There is a word.
One word.
We are all looking for it.
We would die for it.
This one word.
Do you know what it is?
Are you man enough to utter it?
Are you woman enough to utter it?
Don´t beat around the word.
Be the word.
So you think you are a poet?
How many times have you died?
How many deaths have you witnessed?
Say the word. Oh, you think that´s enough?
Be the word. Be it. Be it.
Swallow the shadows, all the shadows.
Then write. Only then, write.

Ernesto G.
March 24, 2014