If I am a shade,
What lies above me?
What is that which sears onto me
A dividing outline
And fills my entity
With the black of night
Where the stars have gone
Missing
And the moon in
Absence?
I hung over the solitary window
Where age had eaten its curtains
A crack cascaded through its crystal
And the sun leaked a lazy stream
Blotting my paper dress
With a dirty yellow.
I soaked in the grainy silence of the evening
Letting its angularities slowly bruise my
Soul.
I walked
My leg numb and dumb
My eyes petrified
And my body all sticks and stone
I passed many streets
Where every home is a silent cave
A weak echo signaled my sense
Its message tore itself
Into a thousand shards of non-entity.
I stared at the sky
To find the sun staring at me
A stone of an eye
A ghost of a light
I shivered, and bid goodbye
And headed towards
Where there was no end.
- Naychi
7th August 2018
Yangon
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