Poems

Only for a Day

Only for a day
she will not think
about you
 
and fish will lose
their way in the water
 
the burning sun will hang
helpless in its orbit
 
the umbilical cord of time
will wind round its own neck
 
Only for a day
she, forgetful,
will place her lamp
between the sun and moon
 
and the seven sages
of the heavens will be anxious
 
letters will shatter
after breaking away from scripts
 
souls will forget their faces
and there will be no mirrors
 
Only for a day
you will vanish
in an ethereal mist,
a moment
 
and darkness will spread
to the ends of the universe
lava will gather
inside the earth
 
and cockles burn
in their shells
for miles
 
Only for a day's
oblivion
this body will turn blue
 
with its own bite