Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
I have had the courage to look back
At the dead bodies of my days
And our past loves.
Do I really have to remember all that again
The peoples of the earth rushed to find out who they were
The dead shivered with fear in their dark dwellings
My mouth will have ardors of Gehenna
My mouth will be a hell for you of sweetness and seduction
Men of the future remember me
I lived in the days when there stopped being kings
Always
We shall go further and never get anywhere
Open up can’t you hear me crying at your door
Will we never hear midnight sound
Finally I have a right to greet strangers
Who pass and gather a little ways off
Our story is noble and tragic
As the face of a tyrant not fun not for everyone