Connection

we spoke in silence
we removed desire
and
replaced it with love

The prodigal daughter

car tyres roll on
the crackling pebble road
I drag my laden footsteps
to the yellow mud brick house
the door of my childhood flung open
grandma greets me with
her broad smile hung on
her criss cross face
my body quivers
at the sight of
the new fallen snow
my heart is filled with
flushed blood of
coming home

Movie

some memory is like
a movie that
we don’t want it
to end

so we just let it play
to one third
not to drift into sleep
but rather
holding our desire
to the next
and the next
never ending

Bird song

your laughter is like
bell birds’ singing
whenever my mind
is in chaos
bird songs echo
in the bush of
nesting neural pathways

your laughter is like
tranquilizers injected
in my veins
I drift in and out of
your songs
in lucidity

#cassaquote – 13

Photo taken by Cassa Bassa at Long Reef beach, Sydney Northern beaches, Australia

Paradox

People
in general
sap my energy
The funny thing is
when
I feel down
I go near them
they manage to
use more energy
of mine
to fuel a bright smile
on their faces
I wonder
how come
an empty tank
could be extracted
more and more

Stars

I made origami stars
to store them
in a glass jar
like so many memories
we made together
trapped in a fragile heart
When the glass shattered
those memories wandered
in a haunted house

My heart rains

there are times
the sound of the rain
becomes a never ending lament
the cold saturates my frame
spreads chills into my marrow

the feeling of not knowing
what tomorrow holds
weights down as
the threaded beads of rain
eroding the scanty soil

black and white clear cool dew
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