My dear love

I’m leaving

I apologize

for seducing you

two years ago

I apologize

for leaving without a word

For living with you

on that mountain

We even shared

so many beds

in so many hotels

 

My dear love

all the joy we had

at this moment

none of it matters anymore

All of it

even with all those white sheets

can’t amount enough

to exchange

for the freedom

you need and

the good things

the visions

you deserve

The road always

grows more real

the further we go

 

I am

by some miracles

three lifetimes blessed

to have slept with

the person of my dream

and to have loved

so deeply

perhaps as deeply

as anyone ever could

 

My love

I regret

that we never had

a daughter of our own

I don’t wish

to bear anyone else’s either

And my love

I leave this note

for you

even this parting

is a blessing

we should be grateful for

Love is only love

Love 

has its own

perfect demands

Even though we have

despised those lost in romance

Even though

what we desired for

are piled

in the trash

 – 

What we truly wanted

was a tall mountain of garbage

The wind blows from far away

The blue sky above

Rise far beyond the buildings

That’s all left

in this world

This is 

a mountain

a 

real

mountain

The scavengers, one by one, bury their heads e

forgetting

their fellow travelers.

 

(2013)