ekaterinn: (close by poptartmuse)
ekaterinn ([personal profile] ekaterinn) wrote2012-04-17 10:22 pm

instead of maps

On ending a long-distance relationship (not that that's happened to me or anything), tonight's poem is:

Love in the Dark Country
by Kapka Kassabova

Tomorrow for twenty-four hours
I’ll be in the same country as you.

The sky will be constantly shifting,
the morning will be green, a single morning
for my single bed. And in the night

as the dark country goes to sleep
a church bell will measure
the jet-lag of my heart.

I’ll open my suitcase and unfold my life
like a blanket. In the dark country I will lie
all night and wonder how this came to be:

the one light left in the world
is your window, somewhere in the land

of thin rain and expensive trains.
And instead of maps, I have an onward ticket.

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