CAN YOU HEAR ME SHRIEK?
From the womb of the barren earth In the rumble of the cataclysmic quakes That flattens the skyscrapers and shanties alike I wail in vain, proof of my chastity For i am Sita Can you hear me? From the stony silence of the mountains In the devastating deluge of an avalanche That wipes away all […]
DOELAnd you say I’m not in harmony
”…but what a humiliation when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing and again I heard nothing, such incidents brought me to the verge of despair,…” The Heiligenstadt Testament: Ludwig Van Beethoven Pounding on the ivory and […]
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Can You Hear Me?
#Poattic3 At the threshold of age, I crumble My eye’ve have lost their gleam And my voice, its thunder Yet, my frail hands beckon. Can you hear me? In all vulnerability, I fumble Seeking to be held by the little fingers That in yesteryears were entwined in mine. Can you not hear me? My fevered […]
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