Brandon Wint

Poetry in Motion

 

My favourite poems are the ones that tell stories—and everybody has a story worthy of being told.

So do I.

It begins with the question do you believe in destiny?

Because everything about my manner of being alive shows me that I was born

For the purpose of writing certain stories, and re-writing others.

Maybe this moment is the actualization of a life-long poem

Written by the universe in the space between the sun and the clouds

For which my earthly name is the undersigned

For there are signs

written in every moment of my life

that have brought me to this place in time.

I am a poet

And do they not so often say of life and destiny

that it is written?

So maybe we who write the stories of our lives on paper

and configure the future through their telling

are with every line, walking the thin line

Between humanity and purely expressed divinity.

But I know I am a poet not because of the aptness of any word

That has ever leapt from my tongue

But because if there is a story in everybody

a story in everybody

a story

in every

body

And true poetry can be found in motion

Then you need only listen

To my body language.

I was a poet long before I could ever pronounce the words that would define my life.

Words like different

Words like disability

Words like cerebral palsy

So listen

The only poem the universe has ever wished for me to write or understand

Is one that looks and sounds like…

 

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