Abandonment

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Abandonment

 Happiness has eluded in the meanderings of fate!

Love has deserted the sky of my visions

And my deserted heart gets lost in the clouds.

I was the Sun of your universe,

And you are the source of my rivers.

Today the remnants of our life disappear,

Our dreams fade in the waves

And our hopes break in distant storms.

The old dreams are dying

in the depth our memories.

Immortality is the flame that lights our way.

The geniuses have betrayed our oaths

And the women in our lives go away

As a wild sea departs,

Laughing in its whirls,

With its downpours, wrecks and mirages,

Without thinking about her victims.

 

(Kama Kamanda, Abandon, oeuvre poétique, page 962)

Translated by Charitha Liyanage