The clouds get puzzled too

when the embrace of the wind is so strong

shredding it into far away pieces

that no longer know where their mother’s ***** went

and instead melt into the first open arms they find



So I am in your shade

a star of earthly dust and too many tagged wishes

weighing me down from the crown of the night



I look up sometimes

to the empty nests of sparrows

to the trodden routes of silence

to the lake of the sleepy buds

and I wonder what conversations they carried through the  night

and what smiles they festooned in public



Then I think of your embrace

and everything fades away

and in the corner of my eye i see a puff of a cloud

rushed by the arm of the wind forward

disintegrating into the blueness of the sky

just like a hushed firecracker

into one big embrace that I cannot claim to see.