8/18/2020 POETRY: AYMAN ARIK KAZIIT WON'T END WITH A BANG,
it won’t end with DEFCON 1, but with muddied water guzzled down desperate throats and mothers crying at shallow graves. with winds whispering away whimpering cities, and brothers packing mothers and sisters to safety. it won’t end with the masses. there will be no riots in the streets, instead they will run blue and be made seas gushing into coast. it won’t end with a hero. no, the hero will die of pneumonia, or starve when the livestock have died from dysentery and mildew has taken the plants. we won’t be chased. if we had been, we may have run. instead, death will crawl at a sickly pace and close the space between us. it will end how it all started… with water rushing shores, earth cracking open, and fire razing forests, to make room for new inhabitants. but not with a bang. Ayman Arik Kazi is a Muslim, Bangladeshi-Canadian immigrant, and a student at the University of Western Ontario. That's a lot of identifiers. He founded the Western's first community for spoken word artists and poets, Spoken Word Society. He has written for several small publications like Young Voices and The Reckoner of MGCI. Ayman likes weaving the many aspects of his often conflicting identity into art that offers a scope into his mind.
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