Separation Notes

Your Shell

My whole being is a dark verse
which will carry you
perpetuating you
to the dawn of eternal growths and blossoming
in this verse I sighed you sighed
in this verse
I grafted you to the tree to the water to the fire.
[Fragment from Another Birth by Forugh Farrokhzad]

This sigh
is to you,
The endless
longing and belonging

Why?
I do know why

And yet,
I keep asking,
“why?”

Why me?
And why
in this flaming mode?

Messengers has no choice
When divine is in charge

Messengers,
Has no choice

Messengers

I repeat your name
And in this cyclical reading
there is a marvellous hallucination

Your echo makes me drunken

And I draw your name in this verse
And I touch your name with this hands
And taste your name with this lips

And I know
I do know you
My existence is perfumed
By the awareness
Of your presence
In my recall
Oh my essence
my fate
do enter
penetrate
me
with mysterious
passion

Let me become your shell …

April 2006