SADNESS
© Farouk Asvat
Swearing false oaths
Is a new truth with us.
How else
Does my sadness meet yours,
Eyes that could kill
Even the happiness
That comes to roost in my chest.
But your life is with others.
With others you are sad.
We of this hour steal what we can:
My face on the precipice of tears
Your warm breasts
On my quivering lips
Your sorrowful eyes
Full of compassion
And the infinite sadness
That comes into our hearts.
And still you go away
Ever further
As I grow nearer to you
Why do you not come again
Tumescent
Emptying my sorrows
So I could fill your hours with laughter
Oh to hear you laugh,
Laugh again, even once, my love
So that I will be happy
And you could return to your sad eyes
© farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
Sadness was previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames (Donker, p45,
1987);
A Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, p37,
1988);
Droefheid (Dutch translation by Irene
Scheltes, 1988);
A Celebration Of Flames (piquant
publications, p58, 2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(03.04.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p57, 2014).
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© farouk asvat. All rights reserved.
Farouk
Asvat asserts his moral right to be
identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may
be reproduced by any means whatsoever, or transmitted in any form or any means
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internet. This publication shall also
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Permission
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Reproduction
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is
liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.
farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com
[] please check out my blogs @:
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piquante: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com
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DROEFHEID
Dutch
translation by ©
Irene Scheltes
Valse eden afleggen
Is een nieuwe waarheid bij ons
Hoe anders
Kan mijn droefheid de jouwe ontmoeten,
Ogen die zelfs
Het geluk kunnen
doden
Dat op stok gaat
in mijn borst.
Maar jij
deelt je leven met anderen.
Bij anderen ben
je bedroefd.
Wij
plukken dit uur zoveel we kunnen;
Mijn
gezicht aan de afgrond van trannen
Jouw
warme borsten
Aan mijn
trillende lippen
Jouw
verdrietige ogen
Vol mededogen
En de grenzeloze
droefheid
Die in onze
harten komt.
En nog altijd ga
je weg
Verderweg zelfs
Naarmaate ik
dichter bij je kom.
Waarom kom je
niet weer
Uitdijend
Om mijn
smart te lenigen
Dan kon
ik jouw uren vullen met vreugde
O, jou te horen
lachen
Lach weer, één keer desnoods, mijn lief
Zodat ik gelukkig
zal wezen
En jij terug zou
kunnen keren naar je droeve ogen
Dutch translation by kind permission of © Irene Scheltes
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