GEORGE ONSY

GEORGE ONSY

TO EVE EVERYWHERE FROM ADAM OF ALL TIMES

It took you God

More than just one rib

To form her structure

So tender, so fancy

To let my impossible dream

Step out of the realm of fantasy.

It took you God

More than just one rib

To answer the yearning of my heart,

Modeling this living piece of fine art.

But God, did you really take only one rib,

Altering my whole anatomy, promising

To put instead, pleasure in place

Of loneliness and agony?

Yes, God, you did take that one rib,

Filling its gloomy void

With strawberry-red flame of fire

That when I just woke up

I found no name but called it “desire”.

Thanks be to you God!

For throughout my whole life

She waves wondering

Between reality and myth

And without her, my so-called life

Would have the very taste of death.

O God, if you had not done it

I would have taken

My very heart out of my core

And held it up, asking:

And this, God, what is it for??

George Onsy

© 2012

In memory of violence victims everywhere

TO THE BLOOD

O blood,

I wish you had

A sound

To crack the silence

Of conscience’s

Sleep profound

O blood,

I wish you had

No color

Reminding me

Of a flower

Once given

By a victim

To his lover

O blood,

Others’ or mine,

Stay on earth

To draw clear

A long-awaited

Red line.

George Onsy

© 2014

In Memory of the Little Child Found Dead on the Seashore

THE SEA DEFENDING HIMSELF

No, no, not me!!

It’s not me!

Who could do

Such a horrible thing

For whatever reason

It may be

It’s not me!

It is a creature,

Who calls himself

‘Human being’,

Who did it,

Didn’t he??

It’s not me!

Who made of myself

A refuge for desperate

Souls fleeing a graveyard

That’s once been

A dear homeland

Have you forgotten?!!

I’m not the harbor,

I’m the sea.

It’s not me

So, I’ve just

Thrown him up.

He never belongs here,

I’m only trying

To set him free.

It’s not me!

For if the deluge

Of innocent blood

Ever stains

My loyal blue

I would turn my water

Into tears to stay

Forever the sea

You wish to see.

George Onsy

© 2015

On Divine Love

To God ….

YOU ARE LOVE– 2

You are love

And so it happened

That you formed me

Out of the bottomless

Abyss of nothingness

With your vision

Of a divine poet,

With your hands

Of an almighty sculptor,

With your fingers

Of a harpist

Of eternal melodies.

Oh, oh, how I love

The miracle of art

I’ve come to be!

George Onsy

© 2014

YOU ARE LOVE – 4

That’s why

You so wished to have

Human arms to hug,

Human lips to kiss,

Human hands

To tenderly touch

Wiping off all tears,

And a human voice

To whisper promises

Of life eternal.

© 2015

George Onsy