AN ACT OF IMMORTALITY
©
Farouk Asvat
What minds never can
What uniforms would never allow
For
you to reach me
With blazing soul
Loathing the smug and satanic
Among these rotting ramparts
Who has lost his humanity
Smugly sipping
The river that flows in my brother
Blowing thoughtful smokerings
To encircle my mind
With cosy notions of humanity.
We know how to laugh
Know how to love
Even when we hate
So
tonight I shall love you
On
your side of town
Slip
out of your wet passion
Slip
through my arid land
To
the waiting border
Or
seek refuge in some zinc palace
And
choose my moment
To
greet their trains with thunder
Between
the kisses
We
ask why
Hate
comes so easy
Why
we overturn this earth
To
harvest dry sheaves of sanity
With your kind of love
We shall stand face to face
Your kin and my kind
With hate in our holsters
Theirs greased by greed
Ours by love
Born of hatred
For the blue-eyed sons of the gods
The masters of evil
© farouk asvat
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composed: 1976 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].
The Immorality Act prohibited any close relationship between a
white and a black person.
It was introduced by the British colonialists,
and remained in force under the South African
apartheid regime.
[] Acknowledgements:
An Act Of Immortality was previously published in:
The Time Of Our Lives
(black thoughts publications, p49, 1982);
Wietie 1 (Sable, Johannesburg, p8, 1980);
The Time Of Our Lives
(piquant publications, p70, 2007);
The Time Of Our Lives (kindle, 2014);
The Time Of Our Lives (amazon book, p70,
2014).
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<> blog link: https://faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
<> every
form of refuge link: https://faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com/2012/04/upon-seeing-you-in-dark.html
<> blog archive: 17
april 2012
<> an act of
immortality link: https://faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com/2014/09/an-act-of-immortality.html
<> blog archive: 16
september 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)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● 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
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biography: https://faroukasvat-bio.blogspot.com
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farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com
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