#1328 - anonymous

 

1328

21.viii.23

4.234

anonymous

 

I went to where I was no one

and made something of myself

 

who knew?

 

I opened a door shut forever

and that was just to be me

 

what castles of word

I was translated

told on

and put out leaf

 

they could see right through me too

 

not even a name to make sense of

had to make another up

 

then it was all around respect

and grew

 

so many years all gone

to be the sunlight since

 

came home

no one recognized me

it was another language then

 

I no longer knew their ways

no catching up

 

I had not buried

not much

 

it’s like that in these parts

 

I had to live in a picture then

to tell the story out

 

or it was a poem where I’d gone

to a tune

and then a song

 

and in my own forest

far from care

 

I followed a line till it broke

hearts went down

 

this mask?

it melted in the fire will come

 

and so you see me

now you don’t

 

there won’t be an end

and no one will say

 

‘went for a vanish –

to earth, to air’

 

asked would I make a difference

 

believe me

I was no one

and there was no one there