Branko Miljkovic - Sonnet

 A space which looks nothing like itself,

Moved by birds, alike winds, 

alone in itself, all alone, not deft,

the eternal start is terrible, with no need for it to be.


A space retold by the language of continuance

and turned into an eternity which nobody needs,

an eternity for curse, which awake lurks

its motionless prey under the fresh mound.


Let's forget the dark trust

us with ourselves, in the terrible suspicion

spaces are collapsing and the black tide comes.


In the miserliness of the silence without itself and life,

we're the last prisoners of the beginning

under the stone which has our name.




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