Image by Craig Bak from Pixabay Poetry Thank you, marijuana 27th May 2020 | by Salma | Share this article: Didn’t know this myself until by smoking marijuana I’d entered into it From my body hewed from a man’s rib, a wing’ll hatch without me even knowing it– in the throat swords with their sharpness sunk in the sour-saturated taste of that wine my body’s an eagle Midnight’s bolt of darkness, risking total nakedness, can now be thrown— with a few kisses I’ll put down the weight of demons crouched in the brain It’s not the way somebody said it would be this my body, made keen as the earth-stained restless dispersing clouds are made keen To this night as if for the first time inviting with me the body I hadn’t been aware of, I arrived To the marijuana that made this possible, thank you Share this article:
Thank you, marijuana
Didn’t know
this myself until
by smoking marijuana
I’d entered
into it
From my body
hewed from
a man’s rib,
a wing’ll hatch
without me even knowing it–
in the throat swords with their sharpness
sunk in the sour-saturated taste of that wine
my body’s an eagle
Midnight’s bolt of darkness,
risking total nakedness,
can now be thrown—
with a few kisses
I’ll put down
the weight of demons
crouched in the brain
It’s not the way somebody said it would be
this my body, made keen
as the earth-stained
restless dispersing
clouds are made keen
To this night
as if for the first time
inviting with me
the body
I hadn’t been aware of,
I arrived
To the marijuana
that made this possible,
thank you
Salma
Salma is an award-winning and well-known name to readers of contemporary Tamil literature. She is the author of several volumes of poetry, she’s also been a politician, village leader and on the state social welfare board.