Too Many Of Us
Maybe there were too many of us: me and the rose
put together by light in the gardens of Dulwich,
emotion going deeper in each one of us. Prayer was
the small wish of my fingers as they gathered when you looked away,
no weight to the air the way love is no weight to the heart
and colour is no weight to the rose.
Maybe there was too little of me: gone into the four winds,
my mind in my heart clinging to the silence
to stay steady. I had no voice: it was the rose to speak.
Maybe there was too much of the rose: burning borders, flesh let loose
from the self, the beauty leaving its mark on everybody's breathing.
This rose made out of touch out of touch.
By then summer has almost arrived like one true word on your lips.
The way you stilled the language as you left
because there was too little of me, too much of the rose.
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