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Creation Creator


Set me on a pedestal so high I can’t dwell

Center me on stage say i better behave i am a role model

 

I write about depression frustration suicidal thoughts sickening jots

So who the fuck should i be role modeling that’s my question

My present form of art does storytelling for your deduction

 

Can’t separate the art from artist that’s the run to cliché

Can’t deviate and stray away from creation and creator you say

 

I call bull

For this art is my tool

Of expression

Sorry of it’s pulled over the third eye wool

That’s not the intention

Concentration in this mental exercise may not be a one fits all size

 

I get that

Topics controversial shall source my inspiration that’s a fact

Can’t still separate the artist from the art? 

 

Easy daisy no hard work on this be lazy and flow with the lingua that’s an easier approach

No one holding your throat no reason to drink it in one gulp stop or you choke hope

 

This one is clear dear another free flow show

What you would expect

From the #ramblingintellect©

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ramblingintellect

Mohamed Tarqui Jalloh is a Sierra Leonean Poet and Spoken Word artist. Intrigued by the genius of words from a tender age, he Co-founded The Village Poetry Collective SL in 2016 for young Sierra Leoneans who are creative in all forms of art. The Village Collective have since hosted spoken word events in 2016 and 2018. He is also a member of The Sierra Leone Writers Forum and Tok U Tok, another group of mainly Sierra Leone Creatives. He serves as Grand Master of Ceremony and Secretary for International African Writers Association, a pan African writers group changing the African narrative, and Vice President of the Sierra Leonean Chapter. He is currently working on a spoken word album.

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