God, Let Me Remember

I do not understand

how to show you:

every day’s slow dying,

impediment of the senses,

delaying annihilation,

terrible delusion.

The scandal bows in the dust

and sobs heartbroken

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you have no will-nothing.

From your lips, water whispered,

grinding dry crusts.

Your palms porcelain

Where I poured my love,

and now: disseminated shards.

I’m so eager

we made love,

now a stranger to you.

In a mirror, you see obscurely

the contours of a fool.

I do not know

how to say to you:

I will always love you

until death grants you,

lovingly freedom.