To love by Batia Efrat

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] To love,is it freedomor is it slavery?To love,an act requiring bravery.To love,lips meet,the poison slipsto infect your heartand your wit.To love,so pureyet so cruel.To love,is it wiseor an act of fools?To say the wordsis to taste death,but...

A secret wish by Batia Efrat

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Sometimes I like to escapeinto the solitude of daydreams– little warm beams of lightthat glow like orbs amidst my misery. Sometimes I like to curl upinside the refuge of my heartand occupy myself with the faintest hopes–...

My body is a battlefield by Batia Efrat

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Your privilege is bigger than my body; it is bigger than me and my suffering, my pain It is as large as the world, if not larger It spans generations, continents, perhaps even galaxies My body is...

Words are knives; love is slaughter by Batia Efrat

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] "You mean so much to me." "I care about you." "I value you." "I will never hurt you." “You can trust me.” "I miss you." "I’ve just been busy." – the seven lies you told me (the...

Untitled by Batia Efrat

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] There are five worlds: One where you love me. One where you hate me. One where you don’t know me. One where you miss me. One where you hurt me. And I live inside all of them,...