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
when
it’s late
down
the spiral way;
from
silk to dust
and
again from the start.
June 2016,
Athens.
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