Dear Prof Poem by Adorn Keketso

(your despute over what poetry is)

I call this poetry

dear Prof,

an abstruse expression of the world's positive and negative forces

a combination of evil and good

a center of battle between life and death

that which transcend human comprehension

this is the inextricable link between me and the creator

a narrator interpreting God's voice

hidden in him

poetry is a medium of God

or must I be blunt and say it is the physical tongue of God

spitting ink to translate silence into words

to put an explanation of our souls with no limit

poetry is creation

and not words construction

for in poetry we love before we see

we love before we create and not after

for poetry is life

growing in the womb of our surrogate minds

it is the creation of understanding between the earth and human

the soul and the spirit

the dead and the living

God and human

poetry is the evidence God exist

it is a story of different worlds

What exactly is poetry you ask, is it love and death, happiness and sadness

I must be honest with you,

What poetry is I don't know

but i can certainly declare

it is just a sense of relief

it is what heals my soul

you can believe in no God

poetry is my religion

for it is the reason I breath

it is my sha'ria

for it is the reason I can commit Jihad

it is just a feeling

and a cure for broken souls

or wisdom to self-imposed intellects