David Stern Poems

Oh, Mother Gaia
Please accept the ashes
Of my self-cremated heart
In your all-forgiving soil
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The night has spread her vast sorrow
above my head
With flickering candles of suns
long dead
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I am a furnace, empty and cold
And only ashes and soot remain
Where for a moment rampant flames blazed
This fire burned out all things inside
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The old wrinkled woman hanged herself in the sky
Her bruised round face gives a sick blue light
Which haunts the sorry creatures crawling at night
Cursing with melancholy the heartbroken lovers
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I can see a vulture
circling above my head
I can hear a hyena
laughing behind my back
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All is left is ash
After fires play
No more black or white
It's the price you pay
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Silent night, rainy night
(Third Christmas without you)
All is calm but my heart
(Third year since I met you)
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Torn out from my slumber
By a bolt that summoned rain
Black billows stunned the sky
Calm repose turned into pain
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The crow never cries
The crow never lies
The crow doesn't say a word
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Don't ask me for a humble song anymore
For its voice is mute in me
And if I'm silent, chide me not for that
Don't you want flowers from wheat...
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