echoes

in this world
on scales of distance
you are weighed

you weigh
what weighs
a dog's barking
on empty streets

sound of frangipani
falling on the ground

a drop
into the night
that passes

a drop

20 september 2014, ubud



 

alone

there is ease
in dying
if not comfort

there is ease when
heart wears thin
thread-thin
smoke-thin

you snap

to snap
at every sound

20 september 2014, ubud
 

ashes of words

the path with a pulse
that keeps beating
when all seems lost
that keeps beating
when your fingers
consumed by shadows
lose their sight
that keeps beating
the path with a pulse

you stand on the shore
facing moonlit waves
trawlers stringing the
far away with pearls of
absence and
receding roars
receding roars

tears rolling
unwritten and white
on sand that is black
but brims with gold

to be part of the night
part of the salt
adrift in the air
in the breeze of grief
to be part of the night

star clusters you take in
blued jewels of darkness
pangs of dreams
love's murmuring
crossings your face
now begins to mirror

you feel devotion
for the muted pain
given into your care

canggu, 4 july 2014