27 August 2013

LOVE DEVOURS ME

LOVE DEVOURS ME 
© Farouk Asvat  

This room has not seen a flower
In your absence

     Something acid
     And deep-felt
     Rests on my chest

          And I cannot decipher the music
          That dances in your heart

You know
I am wounded by kisses
Silenced by love
You know I have learnt
How to loose the game
Never the war
That was inherent in our love

          But waiting for you
          Love devours me

          Waiting for you
          Love devours me

After all these imprisonments
These nights
Wrestling with ancestors
These days
Dealing with slippery manifestoes
After all these mirages of revolutions
These dances with shadows
I still go down and pray
To whatever gods are out there
To suck my life away

     Inscrutably
     Your mouth devouring me
     Like a quivering candle
     Devouring the darkness.

          Waiting for you
          Love devours me.

          Waiting for you
          Love devours me.

© farouk asvat

composed: 16.06.1986 [johannesburg, south africa under #apartheid ] [ph]
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§ THE WIND STILL SINGS SAD SONGS by FAROUK ASVAT

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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
This Masquerade (short stories)
Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
In The House Of Love (novel)*
Weapons Of Words (literary criticism)

all my paperback & kindle editions
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[] aknowledgements:
Love Devours Me was previously published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p19, 2006);
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (amazon paperback, p17, 2014).
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