THE BEASTS THAT I HARBOUR IN MY HEART
© Farouk
Asvat
In
the delicateness of the butterfly
That
flutters within your heart
you suffer.
White
pigeons scatter in our lovely garden.
The beasts that I harbour in my heart
Come to life at night,
Seconds tick on like threats in a timebomb:
The night is more awake and alive
Than our days filled with slaughter.
There is so much affection gone to waste
So much of the madness of love between us
That a shadow of disdain
Flits across your face,
While the fluttering ache of another poem
Comes to brood on my silent abdomen.
With
you I knew sadness;
It
creeped into our laughter.
Misfortune
was our companion
Sadness
piled upon sadness
In the
silence of the night.
Tenuously
I hold on to the rhythm of the seasons
Tenuously
I hold on to our hopeless revolution
Your
downy little dove trembling
Between
my tender loins
Softening
the creases on my rocky face,
Oblivious
of the ghost of savage mourning
That
grows talons in my chest.
Still,
I
accept you with too many questions
Lingering
on the periphery of other dreams
Dancing
on the graves of other lovers
Ululating
with the ghosts of youngsters
Dancing
with machetes around our bed,
Offering
you everything
As
if there were no tomorrow.
If
only I could learn myself in you.
If
only I could
Receive some of your forgetfulness
As
a blessing and a curse.
But the wraiths of other lovers
Writhe within our sheets,
Wailing ancestors
Dance in our dances,
While we try
To pirouette into oblivion,
Always the oblivion
Of the moment.
© farouk asvat
composed: 1983 - 1988 [Johannesburg, South
Africa under apartheid] [v]
[] Acknowledgements:
The Beasts
That I Harbour In My Heart was previously published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (piquant publications, p17, 2006);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(20.08.2013);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (amazon paperback, p19,
2014).
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences
(poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames
(poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives
(poetry)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming
(short stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words
(comparative literature & literary criticism)
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