anger

Not from this anger, anticlimax after

Refusal struck her loin and the lame flower

Bent like a beast to lap the singular floods

In a land strapped by hunger

Shall she receive a bellyful of weeds

And bear those tendril hands I touch across

The agonized, two seas.

Behind my head a square of sky sags over

The circular smile tossed from lover to lover

And the golden ball spins out of the skies;

Not from this anger after

Refusal struck like a bell under water

Shall her smile breed that mouth, behind the mirror,

That burns along my eyes. Know, O dear readers, that the medicine of a disease is to remove the

root cause of that disease. Isa (Jesus Christ) -peace be upon him-

was once asked: 'What thing is difficult?' He said: 'God's wrath.'

Prophet Yahya (John the Baptist) -peace be upon him- then asked:

'What thing takes near the wrath of God?' He said:'Anger'. Yahya -

peace be upon him- asked him:'What thing grows and increases anger?'

Isa -peace be upon him- said:'Pride, prestige, hope for honour and

haughtiness'

 

The causes which cause anger to grow are self-conceit, self-praise,

jests and ridicule, argument, treachery, too much greed for too much

wealth and name and fame. If these evils are united in a person, his

conduct becomes bad and he cannot escape anger.

 

So these things should be removed by their opposites. Self-praise is

to be removed by modesty. Pride is to be removed by one's own origin

and birth, greed is to be removed by remaining satisfied with

necessary things, and miserliness by charity.

 

The prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: 'A strong man is not

he who defeats his adversary by wrestling, but a strong man is he who

controls himself at the time of anger.'

 

We are describing below the medicines of anger after one gets angry.

The medicine is a mixture of knowledge and action. The medicine based

on knowledge is of six kinds:it boils within

slowly poisoning all that it touches

corrupting all that is within

it has now reached a new level

a level I never thought existed

for it has boiled over everything

everything I have

everything I’ve worked to keep

for I am now totally corrupted

drowning in poison

the poison of my life

the poison you all help create

the poison that has been growing within me

anger

anger is that poison

anger is the poison within

the thing that is eating me alive

eating me from within

corrupting every cell of me

turning me in to a corruption

for now I am just a corruption

corruption... Anger is a virus

That needs not even air

To propagate contagion

Whenever it is shared.

 

Anger can't be placed in quarantine

To contain its vicious spread

For anger feeds upon itself

And burns a flaming red.

 

Anger is all consuming

Anger does not desist

From destroying sensibilites

In that haze of its red mist.