Poems

I have no taste for life

By Amir Sulaiman

now that I have died
I have no taste for life
or the affairs of the living
only for love
and the affair of the lovers
the affairs of the living are many and assorted
the affair of the lovers is singular and complete

do not mourn this walking carcass
some are dead because they are without life
others are dead because they are beyond life
yet others have forgotten the affair of life and death all together

Credits

First published in Love, Gnosis & Other Suicide Attempts (Penmanship Books, 2012). Reproduced with kind permission of the author.