Friday, June 02, 2023

stay

I am reading aloud to myself
you knock on the door
tell me you hear me 
talking to someone 
                                 I have continued to live here
                                 the house where you died
                                 sharpening my gaze 
                                  into time's arrows
                                                                I am saying to the empty door
                                                                there's still time to change
                                                                 the ending, we could be
                                                                 alive right now
                                                                                          Look, look, those star-shaped 
                                                                                          flowers would fit perfectly
                                                                                          into the despairing holes
                                                                                          in the sky 

1 comment:

Gillian said...

Sad.

a time after this time in three languages

because  I had not been intimate with death I did not know all its names I had to text a friend who teaches Hindi  to check if kaal,  which ...