DON AND YOU AND ME
© Farouk Asvat
Pelser
sent us a writ
To
break the links of our loveBut the chains
Linked us to our destiny
Kruger and Vorster brought us together
Don and you and me
Fire together on winter nights
We laugh at how we harass the system
Speak of love
In the cynical tongue
Passionately of hatred
For them that rule our lives
With hunger and gunfire
©
farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
Don and You
And Me was previously
published in:
A Celebration Of Flames (donker,
p12, 1987);
Don En Jij En Ik: Dutch translation by Irene
Scheltes (1989); A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p27, 2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (28.08.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p16, 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
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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 @:
farouk asvat - poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com
books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
[] also link up on:
twitter: www.twitter.com/faroukasvat
facebook: www.facebook.com/faroukasvat
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[] DON EN JIJ EN IK
Dutch
translation by © Irene Scheltes
Pelser stuurde ons een
oproep
Om onze liefdesband te
brekenMaar de ketenen
Verbonden ons in ons lot
Kruger en Vorster brachten ons samen
Don en jou en mij
Vuur, verenigd in winter nachten,
Lachen om het tarten van het syteem
Spreken over liefde
In cynische bewoordingen
Verteerd door haat
Jegens hen die ons leven beheersen
Met honger en geweervuur
Dutch
translation by kind permission of © Irene
Scheltes
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
the anthology A Celebration Of Flames by Farouk Asvat is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
the anthology The Time Of Our Lives by Farouk Asvat is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
the anthology Bra Frooks … by Farouk
Asvat is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
the anthology The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs by Farouk
Asvat is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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