Monday, 24 February 2014

A kiss in winter

It snowed the whole day today. You never saw that kind of snow. It was beautiful. I wanted you here in the morning with me. I wanted to open the windows and look at the snow with you. I wanted to put my black table and chairs in the middle of the room and we would have talked, laughed and had tea.I wanted to get up from my chair and then walk to you and sit on your laps. I would have put my arms around your neck and you would put your arms around my waist then we would look out at the snow again. I would have kissed your mouth and you would have held me tighter.

Saturday, 24 December 2011

Still not one of THEM

Oh girl, you went to all the right bars and pubs
You drank martinis and expensive wines
Befriended star kids and spoke their words
But still you are not one of them

You laughed with them
On their high-society jokes
You pretended you were more of theirs
Than the ones below
But still you are not one of them

You disowned your roots
You made up your accent
You sashayed and swirled
But you couldn't fit in their circle
Oh girl, you are not one of them

And while poor people and mediocre lives
Were the scent of your arm pits
You feverishly scrubbed it off
To put apple shine on your cheeks
And still you are not one of them
On the silky folds of your skin
Every time my tiny hand
Rubbed the honey of love
I saw poppies rising on your back
And blue roses blooming on my neck
Every rapid of breath I crossed
Every time you swelled like a sea
I sank like a tiny pebble
In the whirl, in the swirl of your being.