OF WARMTH, OF TIME, OF COMFORT 20/03/2016

in #poetry7 years ago


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With our hurts we hugged,
Crushing our pains inside
An hour long of warmth,
Which, indeed with neglect
For the tangibility of time,
Was an eternity of comfort;

The jar with which a care
Preserves the minute that
Makes the previous obsolete.
And there were beasts in the ceilings,
Who having sought to devour us,
Watch jealously now o’er us;

For our movement sprinkled them
With an erstwhile fleeting epiphany,
That the best laughter is that
Which does not make a sound.

They guide now our weary nerves
From mumbles of gibberish which thread
The streets on cold summer nights.