What the Sunset Said (original poem & photograph)

[yahia-lababidi]

What the Sunset Said

Something happened as the light was dying
it wasn’t just post-coital exhalation
where the once-possessed body is used up
and all that remains is bodiless trance

Rather, it seemed they were mirroring
a preternatural stillness,
two spiritual sentinels
transfixed and somehow Other

Science calls it “twilight calibrated magnetic compass”
yet it appeared beyond mere direction-finding
more a kind of existential orientation
consolidating all they knew, and listening

with their entire being, participating
silently, in a universal hymn
until they were pulled, as out of a viscous substance,
by the hungry cry of their nearby young

to become two feral pigeons, again
with this-world considerations
parenting, foraging, keeping alive
and, dazed, they consented to their stations.

by Yahia Lababidi

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[yahia-lababidi]

Thank you, for your support ✌🏼

It can, sometimes, get lonely out here ... like a voice in the wilderness.

But, I try not to lose hope & post, daily 😊

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