This Is Not The Last Monsoon (poetry)

This Is Not The Last Monsoon

The balcony, the monsoon, and the beer

‘Farewell Letter’ from Inti Illimani.

It is hard to convert monsoon’s fall

To the earth into words.

What are left after thousand years of rain

Are the coconut trees.

They have bent their long necks

And shadowy heads onto time by time.

Flooding, deluge, leaking roof, collapsed wall...

It looks like the nature doesn’t want us here,

Or she doesn’t like this particular state of us.

That is why they are a good trinity: the balcony, the monsoon, and the beer.

OK, come on, but what do you think about this?

The most unexpected parts of the world are rusted,

The masters of darkness, getting their power from this,

Covered and covering everywhere like moss.

This is not the last monsoon, but I hope it would stop.

Trouble, sorrow, whatever cramps the heart,

I hope they would all stop and the nervous war with the shadows.

Although it is not the last monsoon, let it be the last one...

Ulaş Başar Gezgin

July 17-21, 2014

Gezgin, U.B. (2017). You, I and Our Son - Poems of Peace, Longing and Love from Vietnam

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