Absence & Abstraction

1. The dream A space A landscape In which you existed Where you roamed Disturbed the great waters Is where I shall live Calmed, tamed Like a beast returning To its source The valley A womb Beginning of all Beginnings 2. Every slope, plateau, stardust In your universe Each blade in your Tropical grassland Reminds the pain Of a helpless lover Each drop Of your sweet dew Each kiss from the tongue Of fire soothes The wound Of a trapped heart 3. The empty room Between the lines in my poem Still echoes your Siren’s song Calling up waves After waves of oceanic Creatures, thunders & The sinking Ulysses The gazing Muse … Heart in exile I followed your song Night’s whispering Day’s honey Sweet as your Presence in Abstraction ---LTG 草于“九河轩”