THE ROPE CAME AFTERWARDS
©
Farouk Asvat
I was
not born
With a
cord 'round my neck.
The rope
came afterwards.
It is in
the nightmare
That the
dream is found:
Our
sufferings have led to silences:
Our
acknowledgements come through
In
silent conversations with ourselves
In the
absent embraces of our fathers
In the
absent caresses of our mothers
And
whites appear as negatives
In our
colourful lives.
But we
keep on,
Loving
in the war years,
In the
house made of dawn,
Hungering
after forgetful memory
©
farouk asvat
composed: 27.09.1988 [johannesburg, south Africa under apartheid].
[] Acknowledgements:
The
Rope Came Afterwards was
previously published in:
"requiem" magazine (usa, vol 1, #9, September 2012);
I Dream In Long Sentences (kindle, 2015);
I Dream In Long Sentences (amazon paperback,
p50, 2015).
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● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
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● The Paanies Are Coming (short
stories)*
● In The
House Of Love (novel)*
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literature & literary criticism)
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