You say that you can stand the night, its shadows and moons. But the night arrives twice; a heart for what has gone, a heart for what is coming; and this night you can’t put on bed. Another soul made of silk, haunted by a summer’s heat, drowning in shallow waters and surviving the deep. You want to be gone, but it’s already late. Love and beauty arrive when you have no vision of them; then you find your hair tangled with night flowers a heart warmer than a summer night in the city and a soul blinded willingly. In the depth of this warm night a second self pulling away, away from all the memories, all the breaths, away from this malfunctioning body; this is all you are. A step too close to this night as it has never been; you ’ve never been so desperately drawn by life. But the night is ending and hands are the only thing enclosing a soul bound to leaving. A soul silk and salty wh...
Poems, short stories and research diaries by Dr. Eleni Kotsira #poeticmovementsblog