Sunday, 15 January 2012

Stranger



Sometimes, it’s easy

to live for strangers:

their eyes belong elsewhere;

their dreams won’t disturb.



Faces we can’t see

absolve us,

leaving our nakedness open,

our ghosts intact.



What we don’t know protects,

granting redemption,

before truth destroys us

in its eager rush.



If you were a stranger

and we could connect,

we might make a language

of all the words lost.


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