An Aging Alcoholic's Ineffable Nostalgia

                      
Beauty's may
Being so
Intimidating as

If curve 
Of violence
Came always

So stimulating
Queen
Queen

To wager
Then know
Ideology

Hurdles
Individual
As

Dictator
Merely
Straddles

Love
As such
A harness

Ineffective
For why
Should she

For settle's
Sake take a
Stroke of

One while
He in turn
Stroke stroke of

Every you
Know queen
Queen with

Remember then
Know forgets
Hands of held

And bodies
Unscathed
By moonlit

Night there's an
Ocean in there
Somewhere but

Seek the 
Hue which
Fits not

Right and
Then again with
Blotted cheek

And perhaps
Over ripe the
Sun falls heavily

Upon despite and
Lack gains its
Might but it's

All right. It
Is all right.
Was it love

Maybe love
Who will ever
Know for the

Irrational is
His echo the
Irrational is

His echo.

Kemal Faruquee copyright 1992