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WHEN YOU REALLY ASK YOURSELF

by Charles Carreon

Not a pity, not a prayer,

Not a regret, not a sigh,

Not a hope,

Not a request for intercession,

Not a plea for benediction,

Not a memory,

Not a response,

Not an accident,

Not a prodigy,

Not this, not that,

Then what?

Just a sterilized brain

Just a scalded tongue

Just a numb fingertip

Just an arrow in flight

Just an empty jug

Just a chair without a backrest

Just a car without nostrils

Just a girlfriend without bitterness

Just an ocean without dead

Just a butterfly floating

   over the edge

   of the cliff.

 

(1/94, Colestine)

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