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An ode to Ache

Let them go, him and her,

the trees will allow them to follow

with their green veils,

just like the fairies and their sons.

Let go, the fingers numb

it is certain that the ache, shall be for sought

in the gardens where their ambitions will rest.

Please do not ask “Why here?”

I shall not grant you this sphere.

 

In the gardens you will follow them in search of woe,

trying to find the missing works of Poe.

 

Decide whether the flowers will bloom,

will you stomp on them when the showers

detest this morbid couple?

The clouds are not white anymore,

they are but the water in your eyes,

as you weep, as we weep.

There is time, to weep, to mourn

there will be time to laugh.

 

Another rain will follow,

caress your skin in comforting

manners and you will slowly forget;

the times you cried, the times you laughed,

and all that time you had the power

to ask questions but never awaited the answers.

 

In the gardens you will follow them in search of woe,

trying to find the missing works of Poe.

 

You shall drown, my fair Ophelia

if you do not ask, ask if it was all worth while.

You cannot wait, you must pluck those flowers,

until you remember no more her long brown hair

and the way he’d hold her as his own.

I say, do not rest your eyes within illusions

for they will stay forever upon an oasis in his deserts.

 

Do not hesitate to look, for they kiss in

solemn ways you’ll never understand.

To say, “Do I pray?” and “Do I stare?”

It will never seem eternal until that one

look upon a finger of death.

To see the gleaming, the spark

should have been mine? Yours? Our?

 

In wondrous ways will he attain her love,

as she shall confess all her flora to him

and a week after that, a year perhaps

you shall wander and find,

yourself at peace perhaps,

as he shall walk once again

with a different flower in hand.

 

Only then shall we no longer weep,

for you, for her, for them.

We all walk within these skies

and as we fall we move the ground

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Written by
ewelina-nowakowska
F / Polish
Published
May 12, 2011
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