Ouch!

Laughing and singing with tears
oh what are these flaming notes?
Lives without dreams
disregarding offenses
longing for caresses
that tie someone to some thing
or fragrance of someone lost
or submerged loves
messages in a hidden word

Sounds of trains relived
or aircrafts like burning crosses
Memories of lips of someone's sapidity
under bitten moons near
rivers and lakes without fish

Loves of infancy still remembered
in the ether without speed

Are these not things
that some day we will leave behind
known to no one
and lingering ever further
lost in the immense space
or left behind by billions of people
who refused to say ouch!

Domenico Sottile