12/06/2008

At Night

I am happy to be alive; if
I weren't I would be dead.

In another tongue, the night
sings for its victims, the cold

dark air, the wind dancing through
poplars, the far off sea hushing them

back to sleep. No one asks how old,
how tired, how often one grieves.

The only word they are allowed to
whisper: goodbye.

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