Slowly, you were becoming indistinguishable from it all.
it only took a glimpse for it to paralyse you
i would have guessed you froze time again
if it weren’t for the golden dust particles dancing
in the sweet summer silence
you stood staring at the sun through the blinds,
wholly ready to go blind for beauty
so, with your eyes wide open,
you let it permeate you
the light gently entering your being
as if you were skinless
i felt like an intruder, witnessing intimate conversation
in a dialect of beauty belonging only to you
slowly, you were becoming indistinguishable from it all,
like a word happily lost in its meaning
now crescendoing towards absolution,
you turned to look at your shadow,
to see what the light had made of you
but instead your eyes met mine, and in an instant:
an unbridled piece of your world escaped flooding the whole room.
blinding everything, sparing nothing
Jeremy Tiboth (20th century) Namibia
Source: Doek! Issue 16: Offerings Of Tomorrow
it only took a glimpse for it to paralyse you
i would have guessed you froze time again
if it weren’t for the golden dust particles dancing
in the sweet summer silence
you stood staring at the sun through the blinds,
wholly ready to go blind for beauty
so, with your eyes wide open,
you let it permeate you
the light gently entering your being
as if you were skinless
i felt like an intruder, witnessing intimate conversation
in a dialect of beauty belonging only to you
slowly, you were becoming indistinguishable from it all,
like a word happily lost in its meaning
now crescendoing towards absolution,
you turned to look at your shadow,
to see what the light had made of you
but instead your eyes met mine, and in an instant:
an unbridled piece of your world escaped flooding the whole room.
blinding everything, sparing nothing
Jeremy Tiboth (20th century) Namibia
Source: Doek! Issue 16: Offerings Of Tomorrow
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