Halt

No-one
Nothing may move in here
Neither night or day
Not even a shadow.
I want a twilight long life.

Ask the coconut wind to travel elsewhere
It’s too green here.
And I don’t want to think about you.

Ask the river of reflections to swim
Elsewhere
I have to teach my eyes to unlearn your gossamer breath.

Fingers of lament untouch me.
I am not hungry.
I am a poet and I don’t know what to do with sorrow.

Go away now
far
yes farther
Farther still
And never come back to me
Ever
Even when it rains.

6/19/2006 9:11 AM - First Posted