Where the Sun Shines Best by Austin Clarke

Author:Austin Clarke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

YOU ARE not the only one to feel the anger poverty breeds;

you are not the only one martyred with nails and kicks,

to the cross of savagery; you are not the only one raised

to glory on a cross, after your crucifixion, blessed

by the silence of raving crowds. On a blessed bier

of marble steps you walked up, counting four,

to reach your bed on the hard cement. One.

Two. Three. Reaching the fourth slab.

And when your feet landed safe,

landed safe in this lonely journey,

alone in the midnight safety you used to know,

Thursday, Friday, Saturday night, early Sunday morning

before the neighbourhood washed their faces and made

the sign of the cross with the same water, with the same hand, there,

on the fourth cement step, was where they found you.

You were already dead, in your sleep, beaten

to everlasting silence, everlasting death, leaves

to ashes, without clothes, naked as at your birth, above

the grave of the marble steps.

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