If only Poetry were...

Many speak of their sorrows and scars,

And of love, not wanting them.

But I, who don't have them either,

What I sing is something else altogether.


With me, nightingale sings where

Existence itself relinquishes its will.

You hear it, ponder, and turn sombre,

And my melancholy grows as well.


Ah, If only poetry were

More than just ink carved on paper.

When there is nowhere for you to go,

You open a window, to where

Fields of grass are taller than trees;


Where the moon mirrors the stars,

Where you dissolve into your own tears,

And where the dryad hides herself

Beyond the use of mere imagery.



--Damian, @mandarinesque on Instagram, 5/10/2023

Theme : Love, Self, Others -- Poetry