The Sounds of Silence: Mauritian Tales Told After Midnight

Preface

v Preface In lieu of an introduction, I would rather the reader explores the following poem, The Demon God, that much like the rest of this selection, is an echo of things that I have seen, stories that I have heard, words muffled in dark spaces about the sadness, passion, love and hate of everyday life, of a past, a future, Mauritius…a world that is mine… The Demon God travels through all the themes that I approach in The Sounds of Silence, including forced migration, the idea of belonging to a homeland, loss, identity, disease, hatred, family, loss, death, war, the sea and love, amongst many others. Perhaps I should not divulge too much about those stories that unravel in The Sounds of Silence and instead let the reader himself find meaning to them. After all, that is what poetry is about… vi ...