it’s been a moment just a glimpse
of what it could have been one day
tonight I mourn in the dark I pray
because of me life has left its limbs
it’s been a minute just a breath
it is not breathing any longer
since then my days turned somber
under the ground it spends its death
above the ground life’s been too brief
it’s been no luck to have been saved
this hour in my memory is engraved
bird rests enveloped in a handkerchief
true story of J
April 2020