When I Heard Your Name

The day you introduced yourself

 

Your name echoed for hours 

Around my space

 

Like the Big Bang

Suddenly

 

Everything changed

 

First

It took my breath away

I look at the gravestones 

Of all my past fails

 

My head spins

I feel

The molecules

The cells

 

I look up to God

Weeping

What’s next?

 

Days pass

Yet I’m still in a haze

Each sound

Each smell

Reminds me of your name

 

I drown deeper and deeper

In my neuro despair

 

The kid

The girlfriend

The student

The wife

The ‘a little bit different one’ 

 

How could I ever advance in this game

When my life instructions

Are in Braille?

 

And you arrived one day

At my coffee break

Handing me a map I’ve never had.

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Kasia Kowalska