in that lightening moment I was stricken
with a memory – quickening, swiftly, and then
deliberately: a bamboo in waiting yet akimbo,
a sea unfazed yet stirring internally,
taking in the morning’s tremendous yawn
staring visibly, a thin line dividing soul and body,
ephemeral and perpetual, vivid recall
and faint oblivion;
was it the wind that she borrowed with her
presence or was it the breath that once stilled spring
like an invisible, yet felt river in my blood?
what impeccable maquillage was it that she donned,
dawn or twilight?
something the silence waits with its mount on the boughs,
the munificence of such plural modesty,
or everything the noise tell me which isn’t exactly
but still is, a memory.
Jan 18, 2016
Jan 18, 2016 at 8:25 AM UTC
in that lightening moment I was stricken
with a memory – quickening, swiftly, and then
deliberately: a bamboo in waiting yet akimbo,
a sea unfazed yet stirring internally,
taking in the morning’s tremendous yawn
staring visibly, a thin line dividing soul and body,
ephemeral and perpetual, vivid recall
and faint oblivion;
was it the wind that she borrowed with her
presence or was it the breath that once stilled spring
like an invisible, yet felt river in my blood?
what impeccable maquillage was it that she donned,
dawn or twilight?
something the silence waits with its mount on the boughs,
the munificence of such plural modesty,
or everything the noise tell me which isn’t exactly
but still is, a memory.
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