Poetry

Of Dreaming

I spend a life in the screen, forgetting there is code

Code spent to give the life to forget the code made

of a world more or less real

and a time that travels more or less the same

even if my breaths are measured

by harsh hands on cold instruments

I am still breathing. 

Do not forget that. 

In each breath, the body remembers. 

Remembering something that it could never forget

Holding something that does not need to be held

If only you could remember

that you have been given something that holds you

To be held is not a choice then, but an acceptance. 

Breath, remember, live. 

What love Have I held before you or after that even knows this feeling? 

It is separate words this, I've been told a lie of Inuit's 50 words for snow

nothing but a linguistic trick, like Germans making two words one by smashing them back to back

How many words do i need to combine before I can say I love you? 

Maybe Ill add one a day, or just a letter, or Ill do it any time a leaf falls

or the light shines, or anything reminds me of you. 

Id quickly lose place on the page, discover not a new word or poem or book 

but a new sound, 

it is not a language that loves you, I do. 

And I'll never be able to say.