Cheza Roho - Thurs, 6th Aug 2020

Between this prompt and the previous ‘I am Heaven’ prompt, I’ve gained new perspective on how I might explore the teaching of Jekyll & Hyde to my students using reflection on the year 2020; a blur of fact and fiction, or rather an unveiling; the context of duality and balance; of Heaven and Hell. There’s even a character birthed here…a lead for a theatre piece if I so choose to develop it. Cheza Roho is working wonders for me creating and not being too precious about it. Even for a perfectionist like myself, it’s reminding me that it’s only with practice that we can even scratch perfect. It’s given me room to visualise ideas. I love this freedom.

Vibration, energy, movement, dance whatever you want to call it, is poetry.

Prompt: Get Dark With It

GOD CALLING

by Curmiah Lisette

Don’t answer the phone.

Dine, lay with your misery -

tomorrow, you will tell them

you were busy trying to work

or that you fell asleep

Don’t open that group chat.

Leave your sins unread.

If you open, you will lie

about trying to make it when 

you know you’re staying in bed

Don’t empty your bin or clear your fridge.

Keep your windows closed and ingest 

the smoke of your fast living

Don’t drink water if it’s tasteless.

Remember the bottled jinn in your bag -

its ghost may pale the pimples on your 

skin, flush blood from your face, numb you 

enough to get through the week

Don’t change your sheets or make the bed.

Rest, in sunken sweatscapes, in hollow man’s

tomb where demons are laid to rest.

If you listen for their breath you will feel them

 wet in ties like slithering tongues on inner thighs  

Don’t turn on your camera

if you’re set on eating alone.

They’ll see what’s on your plate 

and  ask you to share 

Do it, when your mind can

break your body’s bones 

to breathe again

 and speak life.

©Curmiah Lisette, 2020