headman
letters from your head
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you dared disturb my peace
at one point in time
calling my usual grounds
rags, not worth a soul;
you gave me only your head
as your heart stayed
on the other side of the water
where your mum is battling cancer
and sentimental stepfather
gives you goosebumps like no other;
you called me smart
how did you manage to notice that?
when I barely uttered a word
listening to you talk to yourself
in a stream of surgical syllables
in our prostrate language ;
I do it to myself too
only when I’m alone, scared
when I have to adapt to dimmer light
copiously filling the past –
and that’s what I’m relying on now
my eternal castle that wants to survive
any storm comparable to you
protecting your own world
same as I do with mine;
what we gonna do now
with our separate little worlds?
cracked, never connected properly
and melted, painfully dispersed
down to the smallest particles
not worth anyone’s view
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for M.
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(2022 – 2023)
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