Time
By Etel Adnan
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Time - Etel Adnan
OCTOBER 27, 2003
I say that I’m not afraid
of dying because I haven’t
yet had the experience
of death
on the walls of an overheated
bedroom images on paper
fade like my bones in a bed
women love the night
which hides their
lack of love
they want clouds
casting no shadow over
the poverty of memory … while
their astonishment moves on
the autumn garden isn’t enough
for our impatience. I am exiled
from my inner land since
a lost love left me
the hardened wood of a plumtree threatens
a galaxy unknown to all, and the
word borrows the reversible path
of light to bring relief
the tribes gather their bitterness on
market day; the sun fissures the only
fountain
Omar Khayyam asked me
to share his wine. I said yes. I shared
his melancholy and tomorrow
I will go see him in the earth that he
has become
with each being that is assassinated
in our country of sulfur and copper
a new will rises
voyage, oh voyage!
the final fire that ravages the air
unveils the soil on which
we walk aimlessly
and tirelessly
the hypocrisy of the strong protects us
from home. I prefer leaves
yellowed by the rain to false
victories
so I listen to the wind. It’s good to live
where there’s dying, where the legends
go out … our tombs will be as
light as angels’ wings
let’s not bother to fear those
who insult our insubordination
the conquered will always have the
last word
I live in an invisible that has neither
bathroom nor entryway.
the invisible has no owner.
the dream never has walls,
and it’s never cold there
… and my shadows stretch
over my body as it sleeps,
and the sky stops being blue, and
the light waits
we don’t have famous actresses
in our little grocery stores and our
men exported by hunger hurry
into the steel of winter
I am not a phantom along
the foreign river. neither leopard