Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
On A valentine's Day Night
by
Elhabib Louai
With the absolute truth of your absence
In my buzzed crowded head, darling
Nothing else could I ever think to do
On a restless empty valentineās night
Spent alone in a deadly cold room
But to accept a long woozy vigilance
Sipping big glasses of hard-boiled coffee
A sweet Marrakeshi peppered coffee
Fused beautifully with some Soul music
Sung by the genius blind Ray Charles
With a battered Naked Lunch copy spread
Carelessly on my beat-up scratched desk
I hung my head reminiscing about you
Leafing through our past memories
Travelling time in stagnant pictures
Wading in fantasies of lonesome dreams
A lover weeping alone desolately broken
Is what wretchedly I believe myself to be
I wish you could be here with me tonight
To angelically sleep by your tender side
To hold you tight and endlessly kiss you
Just as Adam and Eve first did in Eden
Before sin, guilt or shame even existed
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Elhabib Louai
Morocco
Elhabib Louai received his B.A in English literature and linguistics from the university of Ibn Zohr,Morocco in 2007. He is teaching English in a junior high school in Agadir. He started a master's degree in comparative studies this year.A number of his poems were published in some online magazines such Indigo Rising and Camel Saloon.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)