Radmila Lazić - OH, TO BE ALONE

O to be alone
Without your footsteps, your voice.

O to hear the silence like the growing
Of a dark flower in a corner of a room.

O to be in the quiet of things and the quiet mind.

O to be alone
Without your footsteps. your voice.

O to hear only the beating of your heart,
Keeping quiet like a mushroom in a damp forest.

O to stretch across the bed
Like a broken branch.

O to snuggle up to the silence
Like a left to the wet pavement.

O to be alone
Without your footsteps, voice and your body,
Covered with silence, wrapped in it.

O to hear the night thicken.

O to lie alone wide awake
While a ray of moonlight falls on the bed
Like a cold sword.

O to hear the silence like shriek of the owl.

O to be without your voice, your body
As if laid out in a tomb.