MARIAN EIKELHOF

MARIAN EIKELHOF

FATHER OH FATHER, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME…

Do you just dive into death

without speaking a word to me..

I beg you please

let me hold you

one more time

share a memory which is

as well yours as mine

kiss you on the forehead

shed a tear on your cheek

or will you abandon me

without goodbye

before you definitely go

before you die.

NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE IN PARADISE THESE DAYS

At the other side of the spectrum

there will be at least you I hope

together with the angels

sometimes watching me

observing me only

like a knife cutting through

the face of hypocrisy,

everywhere around me

taking away all my doubts

and hesitation

making me say

unconditionally

I love you.

WANDERING

Hotels, houses and castles in the air

I lived nowhere

I left no one

motionless as stone

I write the time ahead of me.

Whether I die alone

under the shower

or with you

I don't care

I will feel at home anywhere

falling into your arms

forgetting all trauma

the days of suffering

feeling

happy

hurt

heartbroken in love.

MARIAN EIKELHOF

MARIAN EIKELHOF (born: 18 December 1963) is a poet from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In her daily life she leads a psychological consultancy firm. Her work inspires her to write about the emotional aspects of existence. Not only she describes feelings of love, intimacy and desire, but also she symbolizes states of mind like sadness and loneliness in her poetry and she criticizes dehumanization. Marian recently published her poems in literary magazines like PTYX (Peru) and in the anthology for Syrian refugees titled “salt boundaries”, an anthology of poetry edited by Malak S. Soufi. This month the second edition of her Dutch collection of poems titled “een nulurencontract met het leven” will be published in the Netherlands.