Day 286

Go into the ruins of this house.   See
if you can find the place
where two people sat — not
long ago — and spoke their love.
You’ll know by the way sunlight
filters in between angles of concrete.
There will be a corner you can imagine
among fallen slabs
that glows — not as you see it,
but as the glow enters your own
broken body.  What
was agonized, grieving in you
will be soothed for a moment.
What you know you will never forget
will be, for a moment,
set aside.   You will stand,
you will steady yourself,
let yourself be filled
with some memory of two
you never knew, who left
in that place their love, their
tenderness.  Whatever
became of them afterward,
that remains.