Thursday, December 16, 2010

quatrain 677

From sunlight, a version of quatrain #677:
When I shed tears of blood,
You made me laugh.
When I was gone from this world,
You brought me back.
Now you ask,
What about your promises?
What promises?
You made me break them all.

-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992

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