De Westindische dichter en schrijver Derek Walcott werd geboren op 23 januari 1930 op St. Lucia, een van de kleine Bovenwindse Eilanden. Zie ook mijn blog van 23 januari 2007 en ook mijn blog van 23 januari 2008 en ook mijn blog van 23 januari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 23 januari 2010.
Dark August
So much rain, so much life like the swollen sky
of this black August. My sister, the sun,
broods in her yellow room and won’t come out.
Everything goes to hell; the mountains fume
like a kettle, rivers overrun; still,
she will not rise and turn off the rain.
She is in her room, fondling old things,
my poems, turning her album. Even if thunder falls
like a crash of plates from the sky,
she does not come out.
Don’t you know I love you but am hopeless
at fixing the rain ? But I am learning slowly
to love the dark days, the steaming hills,
the air with gossiping mosquitoes,
and to sip the medicine of bitterness,
so that when you emerge, my sister,
parting the beads of the rain,
with your forehead of flowers and eyes of forgiveness,
all with not be as it was, but it will be true
(you see they will not let me love
as I want), because, my sister, then
I would have learnt to love black days like bright ones,
The black rain, the white hills, when once
I loved only my happiness and you.

Derek Walcott (St. Lucia, 23 januari 1930)
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