Poetry

The Lost Sonnet of Don Lambodar

 

 

 

 

 

If an ocean between us lay,

I would drink it in a single draught,

Bring the boats all to dock,

 

You to berth within my bay.

I would make a harbour of my heart

For your every breath, lock

 

Your pulse, your heavenly

Dreams and desires. I would race

The sun to kiss your feet,

Sea horses and sea birds. Even beat

the moon to bathe your face,

and ferry us from fear. I ask only:

 

A tender word to make some sweet contrast.

Pray moisten this desert, make it bloom at last.


Don Lambodar is the young interpreter in Romesh Gunesekera’s novel, The Prisoner of Paradise.

 

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