Like palm leaves
Without the breeze
The stillness of the heart
Without its beats
Like the ocean
Without its waves
Your absence
Engenders a silence
Melancholy
Of dawn
Without the dew
That washes its face
For the morning.
'Wrtten on
28/5/2005
on vacation at Yola, Nigeria.'
You have created the emotion of loneliness. I sense there is a love that can not be erased by time or separation. Nicely done.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Absence is like 'the melancholy of the dawn without dew', a nice imagery.10 for it.