13 August 2013

YOUR POEMS ARE LOCKED IN MY HEART

YOUR POEMS ARE LOCKED IN MY HEART 
© Farouk Asvat 

Your poems are locked in my heart.
Life itself seems to trap them there.

Walking the gauntlet
Of revolutionary songs
Scented bouquets came your way
Love song upon love song
Stabbing me in the liver.

     How life would have been
     A dance!
     If only we knew
     The blood
     That lives within us.

But there are so many flowers between us
It could fill a cemetery.

And in the distance between us
And the shimmering jewels of the universe
There are hardly any tears
I would appreciate on my grave.

          So forget me now
          For it will take a death
          To forget you.

          Lost in love
          You sent your song
          Upon the wind.
          Lost in love
          I cried
          At the sound of farewell.

But even now,
Every thought of you
Settles like rubble in the stomach
Lingers like an electric shock in the brain
Grows like an abscess bursting into the world

Because love remains:
     Strange shadows
     Playing weird patterns
     In an empty heart,
     With not even a smile between us.


© farouk asvat

composed: 09.05.1983 - 23.05.1988 [Cape Town, South Africa under apartheid] [w]

[] Acknowledgements:

Your Poems Are Locked In My Heart was previously published in:

     The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p15, 2006);
     www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com (13.08.2013);
     The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (kindle, 2014);
     The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (amazon paperback, p21, 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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