Two Poems. (1) Sufi Love Poem.(2) A self Portrait.

                 1.

     Sufi Love Poem.


Your love is the only love
That heals me.
What was not is annihilated.
What always was      abides.


Only with you am I healed,
Contented.
Only with you am I truly
Alive.
Lonely nights are ruled by chaos.
Loving nights   are calm and still.
What was not is annihilated.
What always was      abides.


In your beginning
                                   I was with you.
In my beginning
                              you were with me.
When lost to you
My voice is crippled;
When bound to you
We transcend music.
What was not is annihilated.
What always was      abides.


Trevor John Karsavin Potter.
March 28th. 2017.

The lines printed in italics are an adaptation of an old Sufi saying.
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                 2.

      A Self Portrait.


I belong to three cultures,
English - Russian - Romany,
They wage an internecine war
Deep in my personality
As I struggle to differentiate
Between public and private morality,
Between what is good and what is bad,
What is sane and what is mad,
Between what is true and what is false,
Between mesmerism and reality.
And yet I could never be complete
Without this warfare deep inside
That swamps and holes long held ideals,
Then sails them home against the tide.


Trevor John Karsavin Potter.
April 3rd. 2017.