Sunday, August 16, 2009

Renata, Hold the World Together



1.

love is dead
(the wind blows lonely)
but there is a return
to moonlght on the beach
where her laughter keeps thundering
across the fragile brain

the world laughs
the sun is a fiery disc in the sky
but there is a cold cold corner
at dawn
morning is the beginning
of a thousand deaths

2.

there is order in the world:
war, famine, thirst,
death, immorality, crime against
property, all are parts indivisible
even hallucinations

and the poet asks:
will it end in fire or ice?

i say neither


the world will end
when i no longer see myself
in your eyes:

when the chain
of love snaps

in two, breaking
like brittle twig.

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