Conditional Love
Do not wish for love
It will not come
As you wish
Love wishes are not writing
On the spring butterfly wings
Do not count on hopes,
Love guidance,
Or a flood of chaotic sorrow
Assurance
Love has its own weather
Its own battlefield
It has a castle, knights, bishops
And its own popes
Bypass this ancient language writing in your lips
Bypass the ancient old scripts
Bypass your heart surgeries
And feeling attacks
Bypass your orphan poems
Bypass your fate
Hold your breath
Like holding the clock hands
And the town streets
Make a list of new colonies
To invade
Through up your shade
Be a simple titan
Without a tribe support
Be an indulged new shah
Take off the shell of being
A classical woman
A Bach symphony
Turned into night soft Harem.
Copyright © Atef Ayadi | Year Posted 2005
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