My Dead Language

It is on your wings

It is on your wings

That I may touch the tip

Of glory

When imagination fails

There is nothing left but yearning

I am certainly less eager

About everything

What does it matter

These days of half lived grief

Now the anything

That strips me bare is time

Embedding itself

Into what I might become

If not fulfilled I still have

Days to grow in and

Nights to be born

And myself to unravel

By JBW

Leave a comment