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“Words”
 
Should I touch you where you hurt me?
Shall I leave you as you desert me?
Nobody is coming to save me,
Not even those words that you gave me:
Those lovely words a phantom said
A kind of salutation that follows me to my bed.
 
I cannot be sure if I heard them right,
But there they are—echoes in the night.
But your hands are missing from the future
In the silken light of softest silver
That spills bestrewn from tomorrow’s moon
Nobody is coming to save me from that luminosity
That falls on the emptiness beside and inside me.
 
It’s too hard to say…it’s too dark to tell,
But you know the story…you know it quite well.
I want to go home…but I can’t see past the picture
Of the idea I tried so hard to capture:
Fireflies falling and dying inside the jar
I was lured by…the light of a scar.
Somebody told me…from their side of the wall—
I think it was myself speaking. I cannot recall—
They said something convincing I dare not reprise
But that there’s a stranger inside of my eyes.
I looked into my eyes, since you’ve withdrawn
And the familiar light inside them has gone.
How can I tell you...how could you listen,
When I was just an option?
How can you say…what I’m longing to hear?
That you will not leave me. That you will come near.
How can you say from your side of the wall,
What perhaps I have been saying after all?
Your hands are missing from the present.
But the past speaks with that same accent
When I dared to say what you never could—
That screams to me from out of the solitude.
Nobody is coming to save me…nobody is coming to save me
Not even those words I thought you gave me.
 
© 2022 Marten Hoyle
Written by MartenHoyle (Vate C. Carmen)
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