© 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]*
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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:
Your Poems Are Locked
In My Heart was previously
published in:
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (piquant publications, p15, 2006);
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (kindle, 2014);
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (amazon
paperback, p21, 2014).
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