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The poem 'Your Love Threw Me', by Atef Ayadi,expresses the love of the poet, as he welcomed his beloved in his life. Atef Ayadi, an abstract realist, expressionist and surrealist, became awed by the wonderful entry of his 'dream girl'. When she came in his life, he forgot everything. Right from his sense of knowledge to his preferred café, he could no longer live in the bygone era. This wedding poem shows that the feelings that a newly-wed couple often comes across, in the first few days of their marriage. They tend to forget everything and consider their beloved to be their whole world - the only meaning for their survival.
Your Love Threw Me
Your love threw me
In the land of wonders
It took me by surprise
From my neck
While I was sitting
At my preferred café
At my preferred table
While I was teasing
My poems
While my poems were teasing me
I forgot my preferred café
And I forgot my preferred table
I forgot my poems
I forgot whom I was teasing
And who was teasing me.
Your love surprised me
While I was reading my hand
For luck
And fate
I forgot my hand
I forgot my luck
And I forgot my fate.
Your love invaded me
the same way a tsunami
Invaded the moon
In its ecliptic wedding
With the sun.
I woke up weak
Thirsty,
And thirty million light years faraway
From my birth galaxy.
I forgot the moon
I forgot the sun
I forgot the wedding
And I forgot my birth galaxy.
Your love surprised me
Like the Christ surprised the ancient world
I forgot Christ
And I forgot the ancient world
