Posts tagged: end

from “Tonight I Can Write”

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

(Pablo Neruda)

from “songs from the house of death, or how to make it through to the end of a relationship”

Nothing I can sing
will bring you back.
Not the songs of a hundred horses running
until they become wind
Not the personal song of the rain
who makes love to the earth.

I will never forget you. Your nakedness
haunts me in the dawn when I cannot distinguish your
flushed brown skin from the burning horizon, or my hands.
The smell of chaos lingers in the clothes
you left behind. I hold you
there.

(joy harjo)