IBRAHIM HONJO

 

 

Hiding Within The Self

 

I hide inside myself

like a mole in the ground

from all worldly looks

from all hidden things

from all deceptions that glow in the dark

that were gifted by the shadow rulers

 

birds fly high

it is dangerous to be on the ground

I retreat deep into myself

as far as possible from the deep state

 

I say to myself, shut up

and I am silent

 

it is in vain to speak

nobody hears

it is in vain to show and point

to what is to come

nobody sees

no one believes

they think I am making it up

 

they tell me

you sow fear

there are no shadow rulers

there is no deep state

you are doing useless work

you are plotting

they told me all kinds of things

 

I know

someone keeps all the secrets about the future

I don't know where

how

and why

 

I know

they are planning evil

 

I go into myself

I count hidden secrets

I hide them from the unbelievers 

blind people

and deaf and mute

they don't believe me

they don't even believe in the God they swear by

 

God

as ever

He is waiting for us to help ourselves

 

Of People

 

Have you heard

what the stone in the mountain says

about longevity

 

have you heard what the land is saying

what the waters are saying

 

they say this is our planet

and you people are just guests

who kill each other

and they cripple us because of wealth

 

there is no power in heaven

nor on earth

which can stop human evil

 

people destroy everything

they have no scruples

there is no Man among them

even Diogenes did not find him

 

Heaven and earth are patient

They never get angry

to burst open and swallow people

to cover their tracks

so that there is no record to prove

that they once lived

 

people don't know how to love

they only know how to kill

 

IBRAHIM HONJO

 

IBRAHIM HONJO is a Canadian/Bosnian poet /writer. He is the author of 11 published books in English and 37 in Serbo-Croatian. His poems have been published in more than 100 world anthologies and in more than 70 magazines, journals, and newspapers, as well as on radio and TV stations. Honjo's poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Slovenian, Bahasa (Malaysia), Mongolian, Turkmen, Turkish, Russian, Bengali, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Tajik, Vietnamese, Persian, Chinese, Macedonian, Filipino, Greek, Albanian, Azerbaijani, and German. He participated in three literary conferences: Reckoning 2007. Vancouver, Udaipur, India, 2016; online conference in India, 2021, 2023; and many significant literary festivals in Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Ghana, India, Morocco, etc. Honjo has received many awards for contributions to the popularization of the written word.