i stop trying to remember

i stop trying to remember the scenes___

_______nail pricking visuals_____

_the pain of glowing ember on your

skin____________constant__

as if time aggravates (not heal)

___i'll(never) understand__

1

with my empty bowl- i swallowed thin air_

__________________to satisfy my

insatiable hunger____________

2

i grazed the coarse sand_______(not) with my

knees (but my heart)_______to render my

family's desperation____________

3

with bruised sympathy______i challenged

the living______the living that sustain

the dead_________the irrelevant

4

i told you i love you did i_______i love all

of you___but with the dead you drink

differently__________please try

to understand____what i do not

say i still mean; the sound

of black drowns

the other

words

out.