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The book The House of the World has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is now available on Amazon.

Too Soon the Dawn

So why does my heart go there?
Why do I fall into the tenderness
of a voice?
Listen, as if from afar,
to something I am not,
to something I wrap around myself
like a shore to a sea,
and say,
you make me into a universe.
You release old and sad memories
of my complete destruction,
and now I am born into a new song,
a new way.

I sit and watch the world
dare to exist,
because you took me from myself
and lost me,
put me far away from old endings.
So everything I see is new,
a christening.
You have given me a new face,
a new tongue,
and I will never be ancient again,

I will never wear away
like a great cliff,
gazing into its falling.
I will have flown away,
like a bird that dies at sunset
and rises at dawn,
alive for as long as time
desires to be time.

Published inIndex of all Poems