Branko Miljkovic - Tower of skulls

 


II

Tower of skulls

You complaint of black birds and sad praise

An empty name that stands behind death and a robbed gaze

That's not love that's sorrow and shame

When echoes displace places and shores.


The underground wind rocks the sleeping to sleep

The entrance is being protected by two silences and a boulder

That's not love it's sorrow and a wall

Made out of skulls where rot the once-shining stars


I'm vanishing I'm staying awake I'm turning into voice and time

A flower bigger than the night an empty wave with no memories

Stars that turn on above my head


With which I replaced my sight and the name of my direction

You ship full of forgetfulness and winds without a bow

Some other world's heavy shadows fell. 


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