A NAMELESS POET'S POEM
By Walter William Safar


Just like all poets, I am oblivious to the real world,

and I am only looking at verses,

as if I'm trying to find answers to questions

which the world is seeking

in the thick forest of temptation.



And the words in a poem run before the moving shadows of people

who try to touch the glowing starlight

- which pours into the white stream of my drunken dreams -.

My eyes, blinded by the white glare,

motionlessly stare into the poem

as if it was a dark coffin from which the curse of a betraid poet is rustling.

This rustle gradually turned into the whispers of Whitman.

I no longer perceived myself,

whether it was my breath,

or the heartbeat of the betraid poet in the distance;

I have flown in and out in that restless rustle of the forlorn world.



I asked myself:

“Who is it speaking with my tongue,

who is haunted by horrible fate in the thick forest of temptation,

who is drawning in the stream of the listless

without calling for help?...”

All I saw was my own shadow,

leaving behind

so little visible trace

like an abandoned orphan.

And now I shall silently retreat into my darkness,

alone again, more than I ever was,

because all I was to this world was an adventure,

a nameless poet, lost without a trace

in the shadow of the great Whitman.


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WALTER WILLIAM SAFAR was born on August 6^th 1958. He is the author of a number of a significant number of prose works and novels, including "Leaden fog", "Chastity on sale", "In the falmes of passion", "The price of life", "Above the clouds", "The infernal circle", "The scream", "The negotiator", "Queen Elizabeth II", as well as a book of poems, titled "The angel and the demon".