RITUALS

Listening to the sound of silence
enchanted by the thick weight
of a subsuming darkness

when you stood still and then danced bare
on the sandy lakeshores of Nam Lolwe
(and no
you are not a strip tease artist)

i couldn't step into
these silences you created for me

is there victory in stillness
and conquest in defeat

and why are you on fire?
again?

 © June 2013