lunes, 27 de junio de 2022

the nourisher

 

No, I don't have any further information

about love

 

only that it is

a flame's gleam

from a votive glass on a star's grave

 

it remains alive night and day

in storm rain and snow

without oil without a wick

 

burns on its own

as if love is a miracle

 

and since our subsistence

dangles from the miracle

 

we believe blindly in the everlasting

committal flame of love.

 

Only when you approach with your candle

to take the flame back home

 

this flame

dies out after a few steps

 

on its own

 

without storm rain and snow

 

in the same way that every miracle dies out

when you detach it from its nourishing idea.