Your voice a mixture of gravel and sand
underwater
Lacerates my skin
with muffled words
whispered
Spoken carelessly
from lips come tumbling
endlessly
Trailing pathways
painted with heated
litanies*
I am caged within
these snakelike sheets
intertwined
Supplicant I lie
as you persuade me to
abandon.
(c) Hazlin Aminudin, 2008
* A derivation from the Old Greek 'litaneia' , meaning 'entreaty'
Some rhythmic cluster of words that sprang from watching the video Aizome and some pent up emotions that's spilling from the brim. Reading an opinion on Youtube (I quote "I LOVE her voice...it's like a mix between water and wind..."), it supplied me with an odd combination of adjectives which I adopted to create the first three lines. From that few lines it substantiated into a translation of an internalized voice. I think it made for an unlikely, but satisfactory marriage of words.
Love, Linzy~
