Return
–Mateja Matevski
You’re coming to me and I sing
of your non-return

From azure heights
from deep shadows
with years
with suffering

Why are you hastening
with your dying
through slow living

The earth has long absorbed
my song
my curses

Deaf time is not awakened
even by love’s howling

The heart has forgotten you
only the wrinkles on my face
remember you