YURI DURAAN Poems

you are not a stranger here
in the depths of my mind
treading water in the
unkown where even I,
...

I trust it like an old friend
Silence which has
come to sit with me,
wrapping its arms around me
...

I’m leaving in a hurry…

the same way I came
...

I did not know love
was
grey…
...

Was it just yesterday that
I stood on my side of the
fence and looked over
onto yours... Everything
...

I starved and lost 10 kilos because you said
I was fat.
You did not acknowledge it because it was not
Absolute goal weight.
...

The rays of the late-afternoon
sun are playing
cat-and-mouse with my
fingers on the keyboard…
...

I dare not pray for myself
lest I may receive what I do not deserve

so, I pray for you...
...

I enter the lair of my lover wearing a stainless steel mask

He waits for me
He is at the mercy of the woman I am portraying,
...

I do not see Art here!

I see scratching on
some walls and
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