Prison--Monastery--Cloister--Haven
I was awakened one night
With a sack thrown over my body
Arguments about where to bury the dead
I felt alone and abandoned,
Cast into tumbling waves
Be remembering everything,
I am out of the light half-naked
Children stare open-mouthed from the furnaces,
Haunched inside the chaos of my love
And I don't even know who I am
My shoulders in white softness,
The wings of a dove crushed under stone
Hidden tears impatient, like slaves
Insults wiped away with bruised, cut palms
I try to imagine a manner in which they operate
God/Devil
Watching for me to emerge
Instead I will stagnate,
Sink down into myself
Make them suffer mournful shadows
And still there is no room for me
I head for the ocean
Black sky surrounding small, silver light
A distant voice calling
Breeze becomes body

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