Exchanging griefs, por Icarus | poemas, ensayos y cuentos en Poéticous

Icarus

Icarus

Exchanging griefs

I can’t help wondering

Was that really you

Could it have been so

High

If I could answer

No

It would be easier

To accept this

Low

But then why

Why would you

Fain such sincerity

Knowing as you did

It could not

Last

Replacing

One low

For another

(2014)

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Preferido o celebrado por...

Sarana Conradie

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