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[zan]

As you are the only two, I think (maybe humanist as well), that commented on my poem.

I wrote this one a while back and got a great response. I was not going to bother to post it but………….


[Before we left.
by zan

At best I can remember bullets

Fireflies travelling at the speed of light in the night

At best I can remember babutsa

Invisible needles that burn in your hands for days




At best I can remember waking up

Seeing a Greek doctor and my mother by my bed

I cannot remember the ice cream they gave me to soothe my tonsilless throat




At best I can remember gunfire

Single shot for Turkish

Machine gun for Greek



At best I long for the smell of dusty donkeys and fig trees

At best I can remember the smell of the hamam

I can remember the well-ordered and expensive possessions of our English neighbour that was never there

I long to sleep under the trees on an old iron bed in the middle of summer



I long for the Cyprus that was but never to be