The Destiny of a Poem | Helly Shah

The Destiny of a Poem

Helly Shah

The destiny of a poem

is to appear.

Like a fruit

The flower of a thought

Blossoms, then disintegrates itself

Knowing it serves a purpose

Larger than its appeal.

The writer’s job; simply

To reveal like a magician

A rabbit out of a hat,

And the reader’s; simpler

To pretend

The rabbit was not burrowed in

Trees made of magic.

Reader pretends the poem

didn’t already exist within.