Nathalie Boisard-Beudin
Should You Forget

Should
You
forget
Forgive me
The question still lives
Not only in fire but absence
Because waves cannot hold a shadow, wings, or a voice
Though waves are calling for darkness
The infinite one
These constant
Words will
Hold
Still

Mine
Is
A dream
That rambles
Just a stray fever
Effective across all nightmares
Unbearable mountain tops burnt by a dying sun
Where my soul thirsts for caresses
Your hands a river
Darting tongue
A fish
To
Catch

Should
You
Forget
Come, absence,
Lay your empty eyes
Full heart against my darkened brow
Offering your laughter to those old parched lips of mine
Taunting brook I could not deny
You the trap, the dream
Could die yet
Words would
Hold
Still