MIRROR: REMINDING.

EL Kamaal

One day, I feared death enough
I prayed God to rescind its inevitability;
I feared it enough
I listened to my fears chirping the song
Of the end. They throw me the meanings
Of death as a young rainbow: different,
Inimitable. But the definition which
Unplugged my heart out of my chest
Is their sudden silence without warning.
Without reduction in their corporate sound.
And neither their voice slightly heard,
Nor the tenderness of their feathers felt
Ever and ever again.