CRIES AND WHISPERS

CRIES AND WHISPERS 

© Farouk Asvat 

Our leaders are forgotten men

Living in damp dungeons

Or darkened rooms from six to six;

Their disciples are dead men

And the dead point their fingers at dying men

Blind to the prophets of their time

Priests chant of quranic freedom fighters

While the people stir from their anaesthesia

Theorists sink in the quagmire of their deadened minds

And minked ladies scent men to nights in clammy beds

While tattered beggars lie in drunken streets

Penicillin peddlers make money of misery

And dancing monkey-marionettes voice splendid phrases

While starvation feeds on the hungry bellies of our wastelands

© farouk asvat

composed: 1976 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid]

[] Acknowledgements:

Cries And Whispers was previously published in:

     The Time Of Our Lives (black thoughts publications, p32, 1982);

     The Star (Argus, Johannesburg, p32a, 19.11.1981);

     Exiles Within (Writers' Forum, Cape Town, p2, 1985);

     A Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, p11, 1988);

     The Time Of Our Lives (piquant publications, p53, 2007);

     www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (24.04.2012);

     The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);

     The Time Of Our Lives (amazon paperback, p53, 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)

¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle

> @ www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat

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