You
and I

Foam of a faraway sea,
nameless,
its secret, you are,

I’m a lonely
deserted island
reconciled to his blue destination,

half wind,
half starlight, half silence,

voice of a silent night,
words melting under a candle light,
flooding life’s mirrors at dawn.

Truth of my soul,
its poem, pure spirit,
you are,

I’m the night bird’s last song,
essence of the ocean, of its foam.

—Sultan Catto

 

 

Copyright © Adel Gorgy 2012 Photograph Song of the Night Bird
Cross-Cultural Communications Art & Poetry Series Broadsides # 54