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Empty Space
There were two kingdoms only:
the first of them threw out both him and me.
The second we abandoned.
Under a bare sky
I for a long time soaked in the rain of my body,
he for a long time rotted in the rain of his.
Then like a poison he drank the fondness of the years.
He held my hand with a trembling hand.
“Come, let’s have a roof over our heads awhile.
Look, further on ahead, there
between truth and falsehood, a little empty space.”
Source: Poetry (June 2011).
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, The Body, Love, Realistic & Complicated
POET’S REGION Asia, South
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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