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Letting go (Free verse) by daniella
The wholly absent becomes a void,
through a dynamic of physics
it happens.
And now, in the nowhere,
traces of you fade.
From an October to another in one year,
I have to stretch to reach you,
in the eternity that passed this way.
Still particles of light remain
in the molecular deconstruction of my heart.
Wavering like the sound of your breath
close in my ear, it's voice over science now
through space and time from Madrid-Moscow-Milan
or wherever, God knows, you are.
I canât coordinate your becoming.
Over in my mind I replay the You I knew,
dreaming the You who again
I might one day again find.
The thing is we missed us
in this shared nowhere,
in what before was ours.
Our shameful way of loving
our private way of knowing
our promises to each other
our taking and our giving
has become imperceptible to the naked eye,
through the barrelling dynamic of physics.
Does the heart grow fonder?
Now I wonder. Or does it
hold on stronger in its beating,
when one has gone his own way?
At night undercover in my thoughts,
I see what a pattern seems to me
of dreams streaming on before this you,
or is it all you now,
squeezed into a little speck
travelling at light speed?
A strange sense of watching my heart,
as it fades from my view
reminds me of those stars,
that we still see,
but have really died away,
so many light years ago.
Oktober Mockba 2005
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