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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Letter to Calliope


the two eyes are tired of the one eye
they long to see sadness again
not emptiness that makes more room for love

the lie that said it wanted nothing now is kneeling
at the temple of words
and paradox
who tried to drown you by drinking
slay you with drugs and silence
exorcise you with carnal senses
has no riddles left to turn to
it clutches at flowers and cries at ignorance
stares at the mirror deep within

while the pen is a dreamer that never sleeps
it never cries and never blinks
poets die there and tyrants never run out of ink
letters fly and fill its air
and they don’t care whose name they write
the newly born or those who’ll die before the night

now the wound demands its freedom
and the heart wants some moral law
while the mind still wanders somewhere
between being and non being

and I am dumb to tell the soul it failed
while it’s ego still thinks it knows what this job entails
its eyes keep gazing back through the dust
searching for you in the exodus

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