Monday, June 22, 2026

The Poet Who Chose to Become a Poem(1)

 The Poet Who Chose to Become a Poem



He spent his life

collecting the whispers of the world —

the cry of rivers,

the silence of mountains,

the untold stories

resting inside ordinary hearts.

He searched for words

that could hold the weight of existence,

but one day he realised

words were too small

to contain the ocean within him.

So he stopped writing about the rain

and became a cloud;

stopped singing about love

and became the heartbeat;

stopped describing the wounds of time

and became a scar that remembered.

The poet buried his pen

beneath the soil of his own being

and allowed life itself

to write upon him.

His joys became verses,

his sorrows became metaphors,

his footsteps became lines

on the endless manuscript of earth.

People asked,

“Where are your poems?”

The wind replied,

“Look at him —

he no longer writes poems.

He has become one.”

And when the poet finally vanished,

the world did not lose a voice;

it gained a silence

that could be read forever.

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