I could not sleep
imagining it must be raining
There is darkness inside these clouds
I have come to know this feeling
this obscured emptiness
All night there is nothing
but my breathing
and there is a nebulous death
that happens between breaths
The sky bends around me
touches the trees
and knifes its way between the branches
I stand in the cold air
as a child stands in winter’s whisper
snow angels freshly painted
and pinned to the ground
It seems that there is still
something
that I need to say
to support this melancholy
to bear witness to the sorrow
the world owns
Could this darkness be a god
that takes me to the other side
where what is left is
invisible
Tonight the moon is unseen
by its own absence
How many more thoughts
must I make
to understand the entire world
to understand the joy of some
the grief of others
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from my fourth book: 'The Translator'
(Transcendent Zero Press, 2015)
©dah / TZP 2015
all rights reserved
"Invisible" was first published in
'Acumen Journal' (U.K.)
http://www.amazon.com/Translator-Dah-Helmer/dp/0692415254/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1437074680&sr;=1-1&keywords;=the+translator+%2F+dah
Feb 25, 2016
Feb 25, 2016 at 9:57 AM UTC
I could not sleep
imagining it must be raining
There is darkness inside these clouds
I have come to know this feeling
this obscured emptiness
All night there is nothing
but my breathing
and there is a nebulous death
that happens between breaths
The sky bends around me
touches the trees
and knifes its way between the branches
I stand in the cold air
as a child stands in winter’s whisper
snow angels freshly painted
and pinned to the ground
It seems that there is still
something
that I need to say
to support this melancholy
to bear witness to the sorrow
the world owns
Could this darkness be a god
that takes me to the other side
where what is left is
invisible
Tonight the moon is unseen
by its own absence
How many more thoughts
must I make
to understand the entire world
to understand the joy of some
the grief of others
-------------------------------------------
from my fourth book: 'The Translator'
(Transcendent Zero Press, 2015)
©dah / TZP 2015
all rights reserved
"Invisible" was first published in
'Acumen Journal' (U.K.)
http://www.amazon.com/Translator-Dah-Helmer/dp/0692415254/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1437074680&sr;=1-1&keywords;=the+translator+%2F+dah
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