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| Helen Bar-Lev |
In The Course of Contradictions
The electrician leaves the house
with safety switches that shock and
fuses that don’t work
The mover promises he’ll come
tomorrow
but leaves her sitting on the cartons
until the muse moves him
The contractor doesn’t do half the
work
he promised but doubles his prices
with the confidence of the righteous
The enemy declares a cease-fire
but continues to bombard us
with rockets and katyushas
so at night she lies awake
and gets through the days on
tranquilizers
but it’s all somehow expected isn’t
it?
par for the course of living on this
planet
But he who today declared forever love
compared her to saints and angels
tomorrow will scream
with the vengeance of a hurricane,
the anger of a tsunami
From this contradiction
she can never recover
© 12.2006 Helen Bar-Lev
Helen is the assistant to the President of Voices Israel, an artist, and poet. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies.
Helen is the assistant to the President of Voices Israel, an artist, and poet. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies.
www.helenbarlev.com
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