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To a Late Friend
No more asking of “what” and “why”;
As always, silence replaces the weeping.
I keep repeating that you are not alive,
But you are not dead either, you are just sleeping.
I hear your steps on the staircase,
Your voice rushes in, then, the smell of your hair.
You smile at me, and I look through your face
As the cold of eternity fills up the air
And rests on the lifeless face ...
Wednesday 17th February 2021 12:11 am
Half-life half-lived
I cut an apple
In two halves precisely.
Now how do I choose
The finer half?
Life is made up of
Half-truths and half-lies
And then of the almosts.
My half-live half-lived…
The other half is still
Inside the magician’s hat.
Saturday 6th February 2021 10:18 pm
The time is crawling
The time is crawling
On this slippery Friday afternoon.
My body is trapped
In an hourglass room.
My poor empty body
Can no longer feel the pain.
There is a dry flower
In the corner.
I have been staring at it
For the past hour.
Does it crave love
That I can no longer give?
Saturday 6th February 2021 10:16 pm
I'd always been part of you
It was me whose glimpse you caught
Hurrying,
Turning around the corner,
Wishing to go unnoticed.
It was me you felt
Sifting through your fingers
Like sand at dusk,
Sitting alone on the shore...
It was me you smelled
Walking through the autumn orchards,
Through the sunlit prairies,
Through the second-hand bookstores.
It was me you tasted,
When you bit an unexp...
Saturday 6th February 2021 10:15 pm
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