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• dose of poetry...

  Posted: June 25, 2009, 1:11 pm by misscaffeineaddict

  
  letter from a contract worker - Antonio Jacinto
  
  I wanted to write you a letter
  my love,
  a letter that would tell
  of this desire
  to see you
  of this fear
  of losing you
  of this more than benevolence that i feel
  of this indefiable ill that pursues me
  of this yearning to which i live in total surrender
  
  I wanted to write you a letter
  my love,
  a letter of intimate secrets
  a letter of memories of you
  of you
  of your lips as red as henna
  of your hair as black as mud
  of your eyes as sweet as honey
  of your breasts as hard as wild orange
  of your lynx* gait
  and of your caresses
  such that i can find no better here
  I wanted to write you a letter
  my love,
  that would recall the days in our haunts
  our nights lost in the long grass
  that would recall the shade falling on us from the plum
  trees
  the moon filtering the endless palm trees
  that would recall the madness
  of our passion
  and the bitterness
  of our separation...
  
  I wanted to write you a letter
  my love,
  that you would read without sighing
  that you would hide from papa Bombo
  that you would withhold from mama Kieza
  that you would reread without the coldness
  of forgetting
  a letter which in all Kilombo
  no other would stand comparison...
  
  I wanted to write you a letter
  my love,
  a letter that would be brought to you by the passing wind
  a letter that the cashews and coffee trees
  the hyenas and buffaloes
  the alligators and grayling*
  could understand
  so that if the wind should lose it on the way
  the beasts and plants
  with pity of our sharp suffering
  from song to song
  lament to lament
  gabble to gabble
  would bring you pure and hot
  the burning words
  the sorrowful words of the letter i wanted to write you my love...
  
  I wanted to write you a letter...
  
  but oh my love, I cannot understand
  why it is, why it is, why it is, my dear
  that you cannot read
  and I - oh the hopeleness! -cannot write!
  
  
  lynx* : wild cat
  grayling* : fish

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