THE WIND
© Farouk
Asvat
The
wind took
And
brought everything.
And
now that I ask
For
a piece of flesh
My
soul's not my own
Here
in the land of sepulchral ogres
You
take even the crumbs on the tablecloth
I
know the powers of men.
But
the wind. The whimsical wind.
I
never knew love
Cost
so much
Listening
to the laughter in your eyes
Echoing
in a hundred sisters
Reverberating
from the lips of a thousand aunts
Is
this all that's left
From
the seasons of fruit
This
harvest of husks and winter twigs
How
do buildings crumble so easily
Lakes
dry so suddenly
But
the pain of the past
Is
only the beginning of the pain
Of
the future
And
the dance never ended
It
only assumed another dress
Drowning
metal and pebble in the mouth
© farouk asvat
composed: 1985 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid].
[] Acknowledgements:
The Wind was previously published in:
A Celebration Of Flames (donker,
p41, 1987);
A Celebration Of Flames (piquant publications, p51, 2007);
A Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, USA,
p34, 1988);
De Wind:Dutch translation by Irene Scheltes (1989);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(16.10.2012);
A Celebration Of Flames (kindle, 2014);
A Celebration Of Flames (amazon paperback, p51, 2014).
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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
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[] please check out my blogs @:
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[] DE WIND
Dutch translation by © Irene Scheltes
De wind nam alles weg
Bracht alles terug.
En nu ik vraag
Om een stuk vlees
Is mi jn ziel niet de mijne
Hier in het land van lijkenpikkers
Neem je zelfs de kruimels op het tafelkleed
Ik ken de krachten der mensen.
Maar de wind. De veerbarstige
wind.
Ik wist nooit dat liefde
Zoveel kost
Luisterend naar de lach in jouw ogen
Echo in honderd zusters
Weerklinkend van de lippen van duizend tantes
Is dit a1 wat restte
Van seizoenen
vol fruit
Deze oogst van schillen en winterse twijgen.
Wat storten gebouwen gemakkelijk in
Vallen meren plotseling droog
Maar de pijn van het verleden
Is slechts het begin van de pijn
Van de toekomst
En nooit stopte het dansen
Het tooide zich anders
Terwijl steentjes en staal in de mond verdronken
Dutch translation by kind permission of © Irene Scheltes
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