Water

26/10/10

Water by Sobani Iddamalgoda

Sobani Iddamalgoda is a researcher in the University of Dundee who came to Scotland from Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka she was lecturing in English in the University of Colombo. She has written three books. Two of them are English novels. She has written poetry which has been published in newspapers and anthologies abroad. Her first novel Tapestry was included in the 'list of best.' for the IMPAC award 2006 that is given annually in Dublin. After she came to Scotland two of her short stories were published in www.shortbreadstories.co.uk/ .

Water

I wrote on water
I wrote of love
I wrote of truth
Of the dawn and of sun
But the way was bad
And one had gone astray
And the path was lost
And lost always

And I had written only on water
That had swept away

They talk of water
And its merits and good
They paint it
They store it
They drink it with food
They shake their heads when they meet a fool
And say, never write on water
It is never any good

And I had written only on water
That had swept away
 

Sobani Iddamalgoda

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