Face (2023)

your face reflects the many tracks you travelled
the dirty dusty roads from there to here
your grooved and hollow cheek

sand-bruised witnesses

eyes as deep as oceans
the shores of which you never came to see
muddy puddles, dried and cracked
reflecting pains of old

your lips broken by ageless thirst
protecting your leather tongue
I’d like to kiss you

your glance of lifeless haziness
away from me
have you no faith
no hope
in me

ears blocked with the noise
of grief, blood and death
and love, lost on the way

I’d like to kiss you
love you