Did you mean
to drop
your entire meaning
for us before us
in our
quiet moments
as if they were held
in a holy sphinx
carved
from hard sugar
into such clear water
that we could not help
seeing it dissolve
so swiftly
that we ended up
with a permanent ghost
unsettled
in our memory
as if we’d seen
your face in that pale shadow
of deity and from that
understood
how all things
work in tandem
and now we
have forgotten
all but the fact
that we once knew
and sit bitter in
the aftermath
of that lost, melted
truth
because if you did it
knowing how we
would fail
and despair
it becomes hard for me
at least
to credit any effort
toward art or
relationship or
society at all if it you
are to be
part of it
July 10th, 2017 at 4:03 pm
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July 10th, 2017 at 4:02 pm
Exceptionally evocative. I felt every word.
July 10th, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Powerful
July 10th, 2017 at 2:21 pm
Thank you.