Cinderella ………. , Taraki and a lustful night!

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

You wore a white shirt with brown line

We drank pints of larger and she drank lots of wine

Smoking “Romeo Juliets”, lost track of time

Lover of life, you always shine

She said good bye, you said why not stay

“You are flying away at dawn!” she kissed and shuffled away

Another bird flown, no glass slipper or moan

Despair was not for liberation, nor about the motherland that was torn

In that checked shirt, you talked about lovers

Ones that were Lost and found; but no more ours

Lust, wine, music and political powers

War, genocide also the Death threats that hovers

Ten years ago, on that starry night

Hugging me under the street light

That shirt flapped in the wind with your wide eyed smile

“Mach(j)anng! See you soon!!” you held my hand a little while

Saw you again, on a screen

I sobbed whole day did not scream

Bound gaged and murdered in a ditch

Is it democracy or terrorism? Do not know which is which

You wore the same white shirt with brown line

Do not want to say “farewell!”, I know you  are fine

I want to know why you wore that same shirt

I did not want it stained with blood and dirt

Ten years had lapsed since you left me in a mist

My only honour was to be in the same death list

Sooner or later we will meet in a bar along the way

Do not wear that shirt again, a stain of wine will stay

In memory of my last drink with my friend Taraki - Dharmalingam Sivaram (1959 – 2005)  few days before he was  brutally murdered .

- By Priyath Liyanage 

p.s. Taraki Sivaram or Dharmeratnam Sivaram (11 August 1959 – 28 April 2005) was a popular Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka. He was kidnapped by four men in a white van on 28 April 2005, in front of the Bambalapitya police station. His body was found the next day 29th of April, near the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He had been beaten and shot in the head.