"The World Halts When We Laugh" by Taliso, inspired by black resilience.
- poet
- May 25
- 1 min read
The world halts when we laugh
Footsteps slow and fall silent,
Seeking support in the nearest stand,
Bracing ourselves for the impact,
Letting the shocks of joy vibrate,
Through fleshy extensions that surrender to ecstasy.
Whispers between the trees and winds cease,
As if somehow in on the joke.
The distant patter of footsteps fades
diluted into a background muffle of the melodious sounds-
Almost as though the grounds prepare to swallow the echoes,
pressing them into the soil
and ascribing it a part of history
As if in preparation to stand testimony
To the laugh that can stop time-
A laugh that escapes the ebony shadows in such might and haste
Perhaps to join conversation with the wind and trees
Perhaps to whisper its tales to the idle old age grounds
where the soil keeps its secrets
Long after we depart