A Poem Never Fails Poem by Syed Ahmed Shah

A poem never fails...

There are poems read only by poets
There are poems read only by non poets
There are poems read by both
Still there are many read by none…
But a poem never fails
It succeeds the moment it takes birth
And finds utterance in the form of words
On lips and paper…
It may be barely audible
It may be ungainly and clumsy
It may be plain ugly
But a poem, nevertheless …
It succeeds the moment
It breaks free of the complex system
Of mind and soul
Of heart and head
Of nerves and arteries…
It is only the aborted fetus of poems
That fails; not the poem that takes birth
A poem never fails…


Syed Ahmed Shah,31st of December,2014, Bokultol, Guwahati.