Tag: Poetry of Absence

  • A Paradox of Absence

    I am a thousand endings
    inside a single beginning.

    And in this storm
    I come to you without arriving.
    I leave without departing.

    I was anointed
    by the very thing
    that unmade me.

    I am the last breath
    of an unborn bird
    the first silence
    of an existence without a name.

    I am born
    from the absence
    of my own arrival.

    And in this paradox
    I forgive myself.