Light footed across your thin carpet of storm clouds
Each toe-touch flashing lighting across the world-dark sky
In embers, you fall to me
Your hands, like watermelon seeds
caught in my throat
Your eyes, gloaming in that fractured world- without me.
We are walled-in peoples
We are isolated from each other’s history
We are lost to the timeliness of actions against our well-being
Now,
At the uneventful death of all human love