Recent Poetry #4

If free of ambiguity,
love can be expressed directly.
If actions do not suffice,
(when we are not at our best)
words can only graze
(the substance of affection).

If friendship was only grass,
love could never be expressed,
actions would never suffice,
and words, much less.
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To the forgotten sultans, unable to justify their rule,
to the remembered codes, able to clarify, enlighten,
to the unforgettable royalty, unable to remember
the non-existent beings whose death can't be imagined:

I salute you with utmost ignorance.

To the speck of dust, hidden in the wind,
to the hairs inside our noses, hiding specks of dust,
to the itch before a sneeze, effect with unknown cause,
the all too common things life cannot forget:

I adore you with impetuous indifference.

To the grain of sand, lodged in transition,
to the glass of hours, lodging in it grains,
to the hands of fate, ingraining in themselves pain,

I grieve the loss of time I have incurred:
to the veins that have bled for all,
and to all who have hoped, in vain.