“You fling it open for the first time but I’m gone” M. Kahf ~ Wall
There's flowers and a makeshift shrine.
Not meant for holiness or mere mawkish
memories ignited by tealights.
A kind of covenant though, promises
in this world and the next,
still kept. From your corner there
a few mementos, even the small beachcombed stone
buddha like, as in Japan. Monochromed
and framed, you gazed lastly at my camera
and now those eyes consider
strange surrounds, rooms unvisited.
The silence is profound, familiar as convent hush
without shared music or improvised duets.
II Another Christmas unpacked, and buried under bric-à-brac and baubles, a luxury, sliding box. Some sympathy messages laid within, rubber-banded half-perished now. And pretty cards with precious words in familiar hand, in fading ink as poem or passion, intimate as us. I'd thought to keep you bundled there forever but only stale air rose at the opening and sentiment, fruitless as dust in cupped hands. Objects cannot shore against time past. Our paths diverged. So long I've stood and watched your back. I'll say it again: "It's time to make my move".
The epigraph of Kahf is one from my Poetics prompt whereby I give a choice of poetry endings to set our own poems in motion: “Beginning at the End”
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