I behold,
lonely as an unfilled page
in a tome written by a sad sage,
some soundless symphony in your visage—
lost to time,
yet trilling and riffling through revery
in a rippling pool of pellucid memory.
My favorite phantom—
your face,
buoying above oblivion,
beaming among the crystalline sparks
of myriad memories,
seeks that page
no pen has dared to touch.
Such sparks,
squirrel about you to fill an abyss in me
with nutshell memories of glee—
I who am now host to a lost galaxy;
and you who are host to its mystery.
A galactic symphony
silently susurrates the vestiges of thee
scintillating in me the still celestial sea
with the story of your
HUMAN glory.
In dazzled deference,
my letters wade in remembrance,
babble in conference,
ruffle in reverence,
riddle in reference,
ripple lost appearance
within the circumstance
of an old radiant romance.
They brag about
the two crystalline pools once I saw;
kissed by the morning in dewy green,
now how they preen with the stars that teem
in their gleaming green, guileless and serene
time trammeled within their theme—
stardust and green from the days of a dream.
I hear the wind,
the breath of panting dreams,
ruffle nature’s mane to rustle your name
through the golden stalks of grain.
Yes! —the summer tresses of Sif
sifting wave upon wave
hailing a
HUMAN name, aflame.
I kneel
before the late day’s fiery bud
as her petals unfurl,
bestowing flame and lust
upon heavenly hollow a bust.
Alas, Atlas is quick
to turn the late day over her head—
to drain the fiery tale of red
back to a tale of dead lead.
So, within an eye’s bat,
that heavenly bust,
preening in her fiery hat
is draped with a star stippled mat,
and sub rosa wilts this
HUMAN floret.
Yet—
I salute the stars,
shooting secretly through the years
stealing hues from my eyes.
Do they just titter about time’s grim authorship?
Or glitter in stellar friendship
earned through finest
HUMAN craftsmanship.
So—
I’ll to the stars take with me
the only thing I owned about thee—
thy bud-borne name
swaddled in floral lullabies.
to watch it grow on stardust where a nebula sighs
till it blooms into a galaxy of
HUMAN paradise.
Can’t beat Time, as I of flesh made be.
When eventually of bark be free,
then to the stars
shall I take the vestiges of thee.
Repost
© Hirondelle, June 28, 2025
Arif Hifzioglu
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
