Poetry : Soon

Soon

d. steine

We have spent

Day, moon, and starlight

Trading pieces of our lives,

To solve the puzzle, perhaps

Reveal our picture before

Infinity would claim us.

Our words become hollow, like echoes

Losing their form in the empty distance

As the light falls from the sky

So we lie, honestly:

To greet each other with a fragile silence

Broken by our t ouch that spawn tremors

Into the deep of our blood boiling like lava

Sending them to rage and break

The surface our skin, parting the twin countries

Of our lips where emerges the language of our desire

That speaks of everything, Past, Present and Future

Sharing the same consistency of now of now of Now

And though I am afraid of the Dark

Of her Mother who is deep and silent

My unseen smile is for you, my Sihaya

For there will be light, soon

From the explosion of stars

Beneath our eyes.