farouk asvat : poems: 2012

25 December 2012

DO NOT ASK FOREVER, LOVE

DO NOT ASK FOREVER, LOVE

Bombs falling in the evening

Rape screaming in the night

Bodies falling in the morning

Hunger creeping in the day

Fear arriving in the youngster

Fragrant paper waiting in the drawer

Queen-of-the-night wilting in the vase

Cold bullets waiting in my hand

Is all I have, my love

composed: 1976 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid]

[] Acknowledgements:

The Time Of Our Lives (black thoughts publications, p90, 1982);

The Time Of Our Lives (piquant publications, p78, 2007);

www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (25.12.2012);

The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);

The Time Of Our Lives (amazon paperback, p78, 2014).

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18 December 2012

MOSAIC

MOSAIC

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Here, in the city of towers

In the land of midnight statements

Among the bluegums and minedumps

Here, it is the silence of the jungle.

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I lean against cold marble pillars

In the foyer of the magistrates' court

While Vuyi waits for the verdict

His solitary confinement mind

Not taking in the jargon.

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Here in the peninsula of the Khoi

Again, the seasons are out of touch:

Our lives are yesterday-today-tomorrows

That bloom in the spring that comes before winter.

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NhuNhu, unknown and unmourned,

Took his life

Tied it up in a shoestring

Hung it from the prisonrail.

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Our lives are not our own

Here in the land of the mielie farmer

For cattle are easily bound and slaughtered

Laughter and tears go unnoticed.

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I was not born with a switchblade in my hand;

I had to learn the rhythm of the streets:

Western is too fast with its guns,

The whiteman too calculated with his dealings.

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Apartheid has done its work.

Soweto, shrouded in smoke,

Raises its Black fists against the sky;

And I, somewhere inbetween,

Raise mine here in the city:

Half-defiant, half-angry.

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We live in interesting times.

And in the nature of this curse

We gallivant with death

We make ancestors of young men

We make heroes of dead men

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Zanempilo, the bringer of health,

Is also the bringer of death.

Malusi's rolling laughter

And Biko's spirit lives here.

composed: 1976 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid]

[] Acknowledgements:

Mosaic was previously published in:

The Time Of Our Lives (black thoughts publications, p73, 1982);

The Time Of Our Lives (piquant publications, p79, 2007);

www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (18.12.2012);

The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);

The Time Of Our Lives (amazon paperback, p79, 2014).