Monday, April 23, 2012

Svet je na Oheň

The world's on fire
and there's naught I can do;
I'm stuck in my head
and I can't move through.



My thoughts are a nightmare,
they're violent and loud;
they tell me I'm finished
like a vaporous cloud.

I look to the sky
and I scream and I shout;
I beg for some mercy
from this devilish clout.

 But the world is on fire
and there's naught I can do;
I'm stuck in my head
and I cannot come to.


Sunday, April 22, 2012

To je Vlaštovka Lásky

This is the Swallow of Love.

She carries on her wings
a faint perfume
of romance
 dusted
on withered petals.


The Swallow soars
with pride and pluck
until an arrow,
sharpened with the pangs of guilty absence,
pierces through the Swallow's feathered armor
and begins a hole
that grows and festers
with the hollow melancholy of broken hearts.