© Farouk
Asvat
Toiling for a tot
I
am hopelessly entwined
To
the creeping vineyards
But I have often dreamed
Of
riding Ben Schoeman 3rd class
To
the mother city
Whose
fathers abandoned me
To
squat outside the periphery
Of
the master's conscience
But in the meantime
I
can always ride Blue Train Express
On
journeys that will always bring me back
To
squeeze with chapped feet these succulent drops
To
make the distinctive Paarl Perlé
So
that I can drink the bitter sediment
And when there's a little money
sometimes
I
can always drink Ship
And
be lulled by the gentle waves
Be
tossed by the violent storms
Only
to be returned to the rocks of reality
To
spend my days sweating
My
nights in another toil
But with the years
If
there is no salvation
Like
the lord Jesus Kristus promises
Every
Sunday in the whitewashed church
And
there's no journeying from this wasteland
And
the wine is turned to water
In
my seasoned gullet
I
can always mix Rocket Fuel
Astronaut
to hell
And
rest in peace
© farouk asvat
composed: 1980 [Cape Town, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
The Journey
Of A Slave was previously published in:
The Time Of Our Lives
(black thoughts publications, p34, 1982);
Staffrider 2(3) (Ravan, Johannesburg, p31, Jul/Aug 1979);
The Return of the Amasi Bird, ed T Couzens
(Ravan, Johannesburg,
p346, 1982);
Ask Any Black Man (Ravan, Johannesburg, p`, 1982);
Dokumente Texte und Tendenzen VIII Reader
(Evangelische Akademie,
Germany, p34, 1987);
A Celebration of Flames (Heller Fund, UC Berkeley, California, USA,
p12, 1988);
Botsotso 12, (Botsotso, Johannesburg, p59, 2002);
The Time Of Our Lives
(piquant publications, p56, 2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(19.02.2013);
The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);
The Time Of Our Lives (amazon paperback,
p56, 2014).
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