In Our Time

There was no lie in your voice. The rhythm of your breaths was not cold, was not heavy, in the moment of our meeting: like birth, inevitable, at the appointed time, without doubt. My heart gave no warning with irregular pounding in my chest. No danger whistle scraped my ear. My lips did not deny wanting your lips. My flowerpot did not deny wanting your water. I did not deny you, my love. Each other! For we were souls in flight above an earth that hurled us under the wheels of its freight train under the wheels of its illusory profits. We did not deny each other for we were alive after our dying, standing, above all deaths, we saw: beneath the feet of human beings they have heaped, layer upon layer, prisons flags. For we saw on this planet the endless mingling of earth of wheat. of each other. – What did the borders and the goods gain? – The particles of every light the particles of all lights above all deaths shine forever on the magic stone of my necklace: your love in my chest...