Saturday, April 19, 2008

For Baghdad



For Baghdad

Night without darkness
And the bees are floating
Light without eyes
And the breeze is killing
Meeting without meeting
Felling with no feeling
Like the boiling ice

Seeing you tomorrow
Seeing you tonight
Seeing you, the leaves falling
Seeing you when the trees are light
Like a bundle of emotion
Mixed with childish colours
At the time of twilight

Do you know my feelings?
When the rain tap on my window
When the drops slide like skates
Scratching along my skin
When the trees look so lonely
And all the roofs are flat
Do you know where to hide my eyes?


The rain stopped tapping
The sky looks dry
But inside I have the rain
And wish to cry
Do you know where to begin?
Measuring the clouds
Or counting the number of slates
On the top of million roofs?




  • Modern Arts Gallery
    Spaces and colours
    Green and blue, red and white
    Brown over brown
    Circles and lines that have no endings
    Angles and tangles and unfinished wrangles
    Faces with no faces
    Words with no grammar

    I saw you there in the shadows of a picture
    Sitting and lying sleeping and staring
    Inside the meaningless meanings
    Inside the paint and brushes fair
    You had no body yet revealing
    Your love and hate, death and fate
    Everything was there

    Our secrets where there
    Boldly written in water
    But no colour was there
    Your sanity was visible
    In the insanity of blue
    My silence was silent
    Trapped in white

    The rainbow of your eyes
    And crossbow curved waste
    Your lazy angled hair
    You’re ivory elbow
    And cloud coulored neck
    Were sitting right in the middle
    In an empty crimson chair
  • A page from A Nursing Home Diary
    The sky is grey
    And half covered with slates
    The rain sits on an airbed
    While the morning sparrows have a swing
    On the washing line

    It is seven O’clock
    When they feed us breakfast
    When the spoons can not wait
    And the food jump in faster than
    What we can chew

    It is seven o’clock
    When I used to wake them up
    Have them ready for schools
    Packing their lunches
    Packing their cheek with kisses

    It is nine O’clock
    The shadow of the tree havemoved
    From the washbasin to my cupboard
    And the television is reading the news
    Full with faces that has no eyes

    It the time when I used to
    To drop them at the school
    And watch their little feet
    Leiving prints on the path
    And over my heart

    It is 10 O’clock and the rain has not stopped
    Sliding on my window
    Racing down like tears
    At ten O’clock I used to Phone my friend
    Talking about the rain, and about men

    How pleasant and amusing
    Talking about men
    Whatever they are
    We both loved their
    Strong Idiot hand

    It is midday and I can hear the food
    Bubbling into the pots
    Jumping into the trolleys
    Discreetly nibbled by Magi
    While she whips over her mouth

    Middy was when we first met
    His eyes were made of fire
    And his fingers soft and long
    Yet when he went away
    No midday was ever there

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