as you drift away in the bus, whose windows are made up of just last night’s raindrops, remember these castles and cathedrals : the memoirs of a fading glorious past, these icy beaches and almost sun kissed shorelines, melancholic clouds, this wind just before it rains again. This all brings me back to you. So if your fingers tingle with a breeze, Its just me dreaming with you. I am not there but somewhere I shall slip into your heart with a smile for no reason. Bear this presence till the sun wakes us up.
What’s the opposite of an echo? Lay your head on my chest, Under this waxy paper moon and Tell me what stories hide In the constellations of your freckles.
Let my fingertips trace over The epics of our young untameable souls. Some spines though cracked, And some pages though torn– but you, You always remember Which are my favourites.
“Have we done this before?“ “Tracing ourselves in one another?” “Yes”, you say and that mellow smile of yours brews a breeze smelling of thousand dreams, I collapse into them. Slowly, again.
Thirst is a dryness that floats from the throat : a snow that burns everything like a voiceless cold fire, a pure river polluted with a meaningless existence,a reality that drinks bottles of dreams without regret,a death caressed ominously with warm hands,a shadow unloved in the brightest sunlights.
It is a blessing and it is a curse. It is just a human sometimes,
Listen to me as one listens to the rain, not attentive, not distracted, light footsteps, thin drizzle, water that is air, air that is time, The day is still leaving the night has yet to arrive, figurations of mist at the turn of the corner, figurations of time at the bend in this pause, listen to me as one listens to the rain, without listening, hear what I say with eyes open inward, asleep with all five senses awake, it’s raining, light footsteps, a murmur of syllables,
air and water, words with no weight: what we are and are, the days and years, this moment, weightless time and heavy sorrow, listen to me as one listens to the rain, wet asphalt is shining, steam rises and walks away, night unfolds and looks at me, you are you and your body of steam, you and your face of night, you and your hair, unhurried lightning, you cross the street and enter my forehead, footsteps of water across my eyes, listen to me as one listens to the rain.