© Farouk
Asvat
You can prey on my loneliness
Fill
your ego to bursting
Wave
the banner of my hardiness
Or
condemn me to wizardry.
You
have extracted enough tears.
For I am now of that breed
That
feeds on bitterness
Speaks
with venom
Of
lost souls and forgotten men
Counting
days
In
cemeteries of the living
© farouk asvat
composed: 1976 [Johannesburg, South Africa
under apartheid]
[] Acknowledgements:
To You was previously published in:
The Time Of Our Lives
(black thoughts publications, p31, 1982);
The Time Of Our Lives
(piquant publications, p47, 2007);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(07.05.2013);
The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);
The Time Of Our Lives (amazon paperback,
p47, 2014).
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Asvat
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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
whatsoever, mechanical or electronic, including recording, printing,
photocopying, or via any computerised means or media, including the
internet. This publication shall also
not be stored in a retrieval system. And
the writing shall not be sold, lent, hired, resold or circulated in any form or
binding or cover other than that in which it is published,
without the prior permission of the author in writing.
Permission
to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the
author.
Reproduction
of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,
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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