Found Words

I came across some of my old journals, and in them I found poems that I had written almost a decade ago...These are two of them:

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I remember those cherished nights
When you roamed my body
As if claiming what was always yours.
When your eyes preyed upon me
Drowning me in your Pacific blue.

I cannot forget those cherished nights.
You prowl through my darkest dreams.
The smell of your skin invades me still.
You take from me, what I cannot give,
Intoxicating me, rapturing me.

I remember those cherished nights,
As I am drenched with distance
And stripped of time.
Remember those nights, remember me then
In silence I love, in silence I'm lost.


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One day I closed my eyes
And reached out my hand
To find you there, waiting for me.

Today I opened my eyes
And closed my heart
So that my tears would blind me,

As I watched you walk away.


And this, is one of my favorite poems by Czeslaw Milosz:

INCANTATION
Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It establishes the universal ideas in language,
And guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice
With capital letters, lie and oppression with small.
It puts what should be above things as they are,
Is an enemy of despair and a friend of hope.
It does not know Jew from Greek or slave from master,
Giving us the estate of the world to manage.
It saves austere and transparent phrases
From the filthy discord of tortured words.
It says that everything is new under the sun,
Opens the congealed fist of the past.
Beautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia
And poetry, her ally in the service of the good.
As late as yesterday Nature celebrated their birth,
The news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
Their friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit.
Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction.

Czeslaw Milosz, 1968