We have forgotten the language of grief / Poem by Abdurrashid Abdurrahman

 

We have forgotten the language of grief 

A long journey of virtual nothingness.We are not 

  a stream of engaging water,

 as a hiker in the hottest

savannah, a sparrow searches for a river. A language 

of non-alphabetical letters, concentrating

   on every subject

of life's movement, between topics 

  of every class, like a

duty master on his duty. We live and 

forget the compulsory 

questions on our papers, skipping them like dawn trying to outlive 

 the dark. But our lives are measured by wings of a bird.

©️ Abdurrashid Abdurrahman

Abdurrashid Abdurrahman (Newborn Poet) is a Nigerian teen writer from Gombe state. He started his early education at Al-ansar Islamic Science Secondary School Gombe and he's currently a student of Jibwis Islamic Secondary School, Gombe. He is a poet, short story writer and essayist. Also, he is a member of Jewel Literary and Creativity Foundation, The Newborn Poets and Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation, (Gombe state chapter). Memory Lane is his first collection.

Rasheed is a contributor at Newborn Poets Anthology 2024, published by World Voices Magazine and currently the chairman of Newborn Poets (Gombe state chapter). He is a lover of African literature. He has some of his works published or are forthcoming in synchronized chaos magazine and many other literary space.

He is a very talented poet whose future seems to be very good in creativity, and his voice would echo to the entire world, by God's will.

Rasheed can be reached through:

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Email: abdurrashidabdurrahman5@gmail.com