for K.T who is an artist

Recently all i have written is elegies...

K.T,

i knew you were an artist

the moment i saw

that dark red ribbon sprawled on

your arms and thighs

and the warden rushing,

rushing towards you

and when they bandaged your

wrists the red still showed with all its vitality

like a traffic signal

or a scarlet poppy iced in an ice white coffin

or like those Japanese flags

with Maroon spheres in their centres,

talking of the Japanese,

what a sensitive people they happen to be,

they even kill themselves step by step

in hara-kiris,they own their personal seppukus.

i know you knew something

of the Japanese,

you knew how to kill yourself beautifully,

bit by bit

and i'm compelled to call you an artist

even if my mother says i idealise

strange things,i will call you an artist.

 

K.T darling,you had a bluebird in your heart

like the one Bukowski had.

(we shouldn't have read him)

Something makes me think you had

butterflies in there too and glowfishes,

florescent,glowing glowfishes

that ate our heads while we slept together

on days when either of us had a breakup.

It was like a gift paper ,your heart

so it had to ripped apart.

and you my dear were an artist,

you knew how to die artistically.

You had expertised in nicking

that tiny purple life under your left thumb.

 

To be honest,it didn't come to me

as a surprise,that much dreaded call

and even though mom is weeping,

i had always known you were born to kill yourself...

Reviews

[Robin]

and you are a poet , your heart, body, soul ,and pen are one ~

[Jibey]

How wonderful, to celebrate a suicide as an artistic achievement, so see in the act of death a beautiful act of celebration.... I loved the way the poem carried such a positive, cheerful tone in its description of the doomed pathway of KT... There should be a book called, 'The Joy of Suicide' ... illustrated

[Sweet_pale_cacophony]

I always see a lucid flame leaping through your words..a flame which i believe is also a part of your persona...

[Ed Hart]

you have powerful chemistry in your heart, my dear

[Khaaki]

sahar, this was wonderful... KT comes to life through your lovely words... your imagination is amazing...