Ink
Bottled in glass
Meaningless in itself
Black and mute without
language
Silent but strongly
urged
To speak
Ink
Chance-impressed on
white
Inarticulate,
unintelligible, chaotic
Welcome on the bareness
of white
But still foreign
Excommunicate
But ink
Pen-lifted,
pen-impressed
On blank white paper
Will-ordered
Interprets, intensifies,
clarifies
Expresses
Life
The poem is about a writer and his paper. His ideas, the ink that
are enclosed in a bottle, mixed up, and meaningless until he decided to set
free his thoughts. And when he started to add few drops of ink on the paper,
his mind now explores. As if every single drop of his idea leads to something
new and followed by another topic until he has few ink left and finally started
to end up his paper with the last drop of idea (ink) from the bottle which is
meaningless at first. It was like the ideas were trapped inside that bottle for
long time and when it has the chance to mess with the paper, everything flows
well as if the thoughts were just rushing through the head of the writer. But
when the writer kept everything for himself, time will pass and the ink inside
the bottle will dry up, will remained unused and unsaid until another brave
person came up with that idea and share it to others. It is just like courting
a girl, when the guy has feelings for someone he should not be afraid to
express it or else other guys will go for the girl and he will be hunted by the
"what if's" and regrets. When he is rejected, it's fine, atleast he
tried and had the courage to show his feelings. And maybe he was rejected
because his approach to the girl is too aggressive, just like in creating
ideas, others will not appreciate your work if you have unorganized thoughts or
your approach on the piece of paper is wrong . And on the last stanza, it said
that if you wrapped your idea in order or expressively, it will shows life.
I like this poem because
it summarizes life. As a youth, we have our thoughts and feelings left unsaid because
we are afraid and unsure. At first, we are pointless inside our box, we can't
decide for ourselves but once we step out and reach for other possibilities we
will be open to reality, to a different world, we never knew existed. We will
suddenly have this desire to let go of our feelings and when we had our chance
to prove ourselves, our meaningless life will have sense. It may be good, bad,
hatred, hardships, success, it all depends on us.
We, young people are so
curious that's why we want to try everything, as if we are birds who escaped
from our cages and want to fly far until our wings weakened. And when we see
real things, our innocent mind will be filled with ideas that may affect our
belief; it’s on us how we will filter them. The most important thing to
remember is we cannot carelessly write anything on our book of life without the
support of others. We should let ourselves be affected and be inspired by other
people. At first try it is fine if we will end up in a dirty sheet of paper,
for we are careless, and we write everything that comes in our mind, no drive,
no direction. But once we are given another sheet of blank paper, this time we
should set goals and ideas that you want to focus on, on what you want your
life to be.
Written by Thea Katrina Fernandez
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