Dedicated to ALL, Who are sentenced to "One hundred years of Solitude":
The masterpiece literature by Jose Gabriel Garcia Marquez







Crime 
*****


you "ALL" people out there 
I reach out for help
tell me 
tell me.......

how long is the distance
   between passion and pity 
how many days and nights
   would you stare at phone 
   to hear the pleasant ringing 
   of the reply to your phone call

how long would it take 
to build a shining palace 
   of hope in your foggy dream 
   days, months, years?
to drown your love in history
   seconds, moments, words?

how many times would you risk 
to sow happiness
   and 
   harvest deep sorrow
   and still survive?

how long would it take 
to realize you are sold for free 
and
how many more times would you
put your soul on sale?

how hard would be the penalty of your crime 
to keep pushing her away
   till finally sink
   in the empty freedom

how silently would you let it go 
while not having the right to defend yourself 
during a trial
how many more times one can start again 
listening to the same old songs over and over 
escaping from pain and loneliness 
   by writing dull poetry

how many more times would you 
review years-old letters of her 
sit on the cold stone on the street at nights 
   staring at the small window of your hope 
   wishing her shadow behind black curtain would pass by 
   while sharing your tears with lonely stars

how easy would it be
to sleep at 4 am and
to wake up at 6 am 
wishing ALL were just nightmares

how many more times would you
stare at a picture surrounded in your thirsty mind 
   and cry out : 
   " Would you ever come back? "

how long would you wear mourning black and not shave
after losing your sun

how hard would it be
to get used to your hopeless empty mail box 
while it were full of passion every day for months

how long would your heart be able 
to keep these suffering questions as secrets 
before your chest would explode of pain 

tell me 
how many days would be the difference 
between the date smiling on the last love letter
and hearing the breath-taking cold "Good Bye" 
just 6 days?

after ALL 
tell me you ALL out there 
how does it feel living in 
"One hundred years of Solitude" ?

     Syavash Shaghayegh 
     © June 27, 1995 

 

 

 
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