The Prophet's Message Poem by Daniel Brick
The Prophet's Message
The Prophet's core message is:
I AM NOT ALONE IN THIS ENDEAVOR, NOR AM I ACCOMPANIED.
It is a puzzling message, a paradox, clearly contradictory, right? Well, maybe, if you're in a rush for meaning. But...
Talking in circles around an issue is his style and that way of speaking can mean disparate things coalesce into a larger meaning
as they circle. It's worth a whirl, isn't it?
But he wants this admitted paradox to strike you with its full force,
as it did strike him, so he doesn't explain it. I can, not being a prophet pledged to silence. He does not want this truth to enter your mind in pieces which is what an explanation does, being a sequence of words. He wants it to be like Andre Breton's near death in a car accident in which he and his companion sustained no physical injury
but suffered into a clarifying, immediate knowledge of the surrealist
concept of OBJECTIVE CHANCE. Whew, it was a fuzzy notion until the accident made it radically real and genuine. (However, maybe you still want this prophet to talk in plain language. OK. I AM NOT ALONE refers to the sense of being protected he speaks of in the first stanza.
I AM NOT ACCOMPANIED means he has no supernatural helper like the Angel Raphael for Tobias in The Book of Tobit.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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An interesting write where you probe deeply into the words of a prophet. These words are certainly quizzical and arouse the curiosity of the thinking mind. But put aside all meaning n possible interpretations, these words in themselves create an impact on the listener n in this case the reader....i'm not alone, nor am i accompanied. That's the point we all need to reach....a balance, a sense of completeness.
You have out it so clearly, Nosheen. The Prophet's puzzling words mean THE POINT WE ALL NEED TO REACH... A BALANCE, A SENSE OF COMPLETENESS. I love that! That's what the poem means. I couldn't find the right words. You have done so! !