MARIAN EIKELHOF

MARIAN EIKELHOF

NAKED

I decided not to like you

only out of fear for your rejection

or speak your language

for you don't speak mine.

I will not humiliate myself in order

to strengthen you

nor call your name

you never mention mine.

I won't allow you to help me

desperately

cause it's actually you

who needs me to survive .

I beg your pardon for not adoring

stupidity, rather authentically

I show me and my true love

Inside.

LITTLE REFUGEE GIRL

the silence of your broken heart

can be heard

from miles and miles away

raped by ignorance of the lucky ones

you find some water and some food

if lucky, some shelter for the night

no love, no life

your big brown eyes

just stare

forgot to laugh

forgot to cry

all you do

survive

no love, no life.

THE TRUTH

I have to admit

the wind whispers

your name

I hide my sadness

escape into silence

yet from dawn

till night

I breath you

you enter me

and leave me

get inside of me

and go

however not even you

yourself

can stop me

from loving you

for as a matter of fact

I do.

MARIAN EIKELHOF

MARIAN EIKELHOF: Is a dutch poet who lives in Rotterdam, which was also the place of her birth in the Netherlands. In her daily life she works as a psychologist leading her own consultancy firm, named Psychologisch Adviesbureau Ariadne.  Her work inspires her to write about the emotional aspects of existence. Not only she describes feelings of love, intimacy and desire, but also about a state of profound sadness and she criticizes dehumanisation. Marian has recently published the second edition of her collection of poems titled “een nulurencontract met het leven” and is about to publish an English collection of poems titled “a contract of zero hours with life”. She visited poetry festivals in Cuba to defend peace and she has published poems in literary magazines like PTYX (Peru) and in the anthology “Salt boundaries”, edited by Malak S. Soufi. Recently Marian participated in a poetry event called “Sotto il cielo di luglio”in Anzio, Italy. Marian is active furthermore active in defending human rights with a special emphasis on the empowerment of women internationally. To focus on the peace process with other poets she is continental director of Europe in the World Festival of Poetry.