Something in a heartbeat
The flesh and the bones
cry out, singing
Acrobats and flowers
no chains, no gardens
Unfettered.
I play the quickening beat of the heart
Burning awhile before tomorrow
Binding threads of gold to the pillar of fire
These threads are truths
Because we are
powder in silence
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I come from tomorrow
in time for no one
You look at me, and start walking faster
I see you, and start building skies
Before being bornI slept
on a hill
Childless
I played with the sun -
If
then
the skies gather
Everything proceeds
tomorrow is already yours
I am already light -
Powder in silence
Silent powder
Tell her you have not seen
Tell her I do not know
Tell her I am not the past
Powder in silence
Ever-changing powder -
Run, run, run again
Unaware that the beginning of your life
is almost the end of a rose
Finding out that the last jump mutates into the first breath
Almost at the very end.
Laying down with dawn
Hiding in walled gardens.
Plucking sugared clouds
for my hat -
They drew the perimeters of the sun
They scythed the moon with the remains of the flowers
They counted all the leaves in the desert
They hid the skies in a single hand
They traced the routes of the ships
lacerating the sea with a finger -
Tasting the night
I put the light to sleep
Run
run
I am buried by flowers -
I wrenched away from them the guts of the earth
making out of it laurel for my eternity
One day they shall sing
and I will no longer be land for the conquered
but shadow of spent light
in the precocious perpetual
until the beginning of the world -
Many are scattered
I buried a flower beneath each one of them
I did not know their names
I christened all of them but one
He was in front of me, he was the last
he was not holding a gun
but a flower
I took away that flower and gave him my name -
In a hurry, but without rushing
The clock is not a compass
and somebody will know
You ironed crescent skies
flattening the miseries
offending livid nights
I saw you die
Two times under the sun
twice in the dust -
I care not about the days
I care not about writing
I will only need one look
to wound youFatally
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To encounter the night is easy
I encountered the nightEasily
Though I did not escape it byrunning towards the light
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I laughed too much not to go down the stairs
Tomorrow I will cry enough to ascend them again -
I never really knew my name
I did not search for it more than I searched for my destiny
But one day I will change my mind
And before learning how to die, I will know -
When I was young I told myself that one day I would count my wrinkles
When I was old someone did it for me
Nobody told methe purpose of numbers is to count the rest of the universe
Not to die
-
Two lights remain alight
One I switch off
The other I will switch off
Far from my hands -
He wrote his name on the wall
crystal feathers
betrayed paints
You tried silence
turning into transparent stone
And I can no longer find my name
Lost in tomorrow’s time -
Moving to the last prison
a shallow breath before the big jump
How many can only see the prisons of othersforgetting their own
I fled long ago
and will die drunk under the sun
