Written piece
Revolution in living-Shiny Disco Balls
Mariam Saeed Khan
Pakistan
About this piece
This is a tribute in poetic words for the power of coming together, individually and collectively , as nations and people , beyond our systems and government. Our stories bring us together despite what we are capable off, in the differences of our hearts.
Shiny Orbit
"The shiny disco balls,
the love that was healing,
I was narrating in orbit to the invisibility cloak, and the soul spirits,
I have fallen as a star and
healing in the rise of a sailor that sink, its ship.
The gift was taken for a long ride,
and a pause.
The story rebirths and the rise from rock bottom will be seen.
What do you know about death ,
when I died a thousand lives, orbiting like an astronaut with a cord cut off,
In a shiny space, like a metro that sang, with violins and pianist last's performance,
of an orchestra.
Our atlas of hearts are connected, with nations, revolutions created and systems upside down, with the power of love.
These expressions of heart of gold; getting older, we bind together as the last one to emerge rewriting our histories.
Rock bottom anthem,
synchronized in voltages
of electricty running through,
invisibility cloak became my cape
and i owned up the absence,
even if no one is around,
she must show the crowds how to play.
The electrician became guitarist, playing electric guitars like never before.
What do you know about rock bottom well, when the tunes are from the organ of heart.
They write resistance in the streets.
I write revolutions the way i lived.
Beat that hell out. Now is the time.
We keep the pictures collectively, of nations and races, yet when the whistle blows, our train compartments made us one.
The streets echoes when we rise.
Here and now. Alive and one."