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]
[] Acknowledgements:
Love Devours
Me was previously
published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (piquant publications, p19, 2006);
www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
(27.08.2013);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs (amazon paperback, p17,
2014).
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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)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short
stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words
(comparative literature &
literary criticism)
¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in
paperback & kindle
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[] please check out my blogs @:
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