IULIA GHERGHEI

POEMS OF IULIA GHERGHEI.

      Sun’s ash

On the other side of me

One day I found me

I was caressed by the sun

bath by the waters of light

laughing like crazy in my face

On the other side of me

a shadow was crying

dripping itself into the asphalt

then the comedy stops

burnt all around

my skin is shouting its pain

in red colors

On the other side of me only

I found out

Sun

Sun is on the other side of me

Sun is my interior also

Outside my flesh

Inside my flesh

Sun's ash.

Cholera ballads

hear, hear, world of mine

new rules in town

kisses are forbidden on the shrine...

new rules in town

The announcer walk through the medieval town crying the news, the new rule was a desperate attempt to minimize the numbers of victims made by the new disease called cholera

hear, hear world of mine

new rules in town

kisses are forbidden on the shrine...

new rules in town

All over, people looked like ghosts, their eyes were empty, dry, no tears left, the skin was yellowish with brown shades, even the lips had vanished...what with to kiss the shrine? who had time for God  when death was feasting on their corpses?!

hear, hear, death is near

come to sip your eyes, my dear...

there, there rest your body 

hurry to become nobody

Smoke, suffocating and choking, floating, penetrating lungs...they got used to it...At first, fear and nausea overwhelmed them, when they found out that the smoke was from the burning corpses as there was no place in the cemetery to ground them, then nobody minded, people get used with everything!

hear, hear, death is near

come to sip your eyes, my dear

there, there rest your body

hurry to become nobody

This was the song kids cried out while jumping through the corpses on their way to church, where of course no one would kiss the shrine due to the new rule in town!!!

A prelude to death

So the pain is my friend now

Deep in my flesh it bites every cell

Screams are muted now....only lugubrious moans are leaving my lips

Sleep is only a prelude to death 

So light is burning my eyes

Any sound splits my brain 

getting choked with my own inside liquids 

I howl into the vast horizon of my darkness:

Just give me one more day 

as if that would be enough ...

as if that would bring death to my cancerous mucus 

as if that would heal all the pus

as if that would be enough for one more miracle in my life

Just give me one more day

I prayed ....

Now, right now 

Just give me one instant death.