Poem: Your name evokes parts of me

once we bled among oceans' waves,

now we bleed unto paper in covered rooms

your nocturnal symphonies resonate somewhere deeper

in myself, as if piano keys were my ribs

raindrops drifting on the window pane were minutes we had

 

I heard butterflies caught in your dreams

and wondered who will it take to teach them flight?

their desire was clear in the hour of the wolf

when you woke up as if it wasn't you who rose up

from that bed, but your other self, thirsty

for life without a mask, losing emotion as a price

 

I remember how we ran like two deer

away from a pack of lions, in the pale moonlight

when we reached the shore, there was no hiding place left

like any two lovers, we fell into an embrace

laid down into sand, covered ourselves with fallen leaves

painted our skins in colours of stones

we were nowhere to be found

only our voices whispered between the sea waves

 

your name still evokes parts of me

as if it is etched into my bones

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