Four Words
Flowers, with their colours, shapes, and scents
Convey messages of love, sorrow, joy, or pain.
So, as every flower has a colour, I suggest
That every word should have a colour as well
A colour for the shape they describe
A colour for the message they deliver
Like those words on billboards and screens
Bright in colours, shapes, and sizes
Although their message is not so deep.
So, every written word in print or ink
Shouldn’t be black or white if you think
What a grim language we have built
As if we all carry a fault as if we all carry a guilt.
For, what is our language but a black-or-white vocabulary
That follows blind a black-or-white dictionary?
Instead, for example, we could write the word ‘dream’ in pink
And so we could write the word ‘blue’
And every word that conveys a feeling
In the colours of that feeling
As happiness, sorrow, wrath, or healing
Love, another example, we could colour every letter
The colours we feel, when we fall in love
And the words that describe nature we should call
As colourful as the shades, as the shades of the fall
So the text would raise our minds and glow in our hearts
It’s what I claim. Please stop, is what I yell
Please stop making of the Earth a living Hell!
Rainbow colours would suffice to return to Paradise
Henceforward, we could colour every word we write
Every word made it right, written in colourful inks
For every word has a worth, a story, a life that links
Every life we live, every story we tell
However, I beg the audience’s comprehension
Because this suggestion might have four exceptions
By far, four words might escape my recommendation
Justice, Democracy, Freedom, and Peace
Man has given these four words exceptional worth
A unique life, a distinct story wrapped in mirth
Four words, such as four legs, where withstand
Everything human, all over the land
Four words that the news flood
Not so in ink, yet so in blood
Justice, Democracy, Freedom, and Peace
Injustice and Hypocrisy in the Kingdom of Ease.
I wish you all true Justice, Democracy, Freedom and Peace for the New Year 2025.
With all my love.