To Believe in Light

I encountered you in another kingdom. I discovered the truth, in which return you could not believe. Step by step, our words intertwined—too common to turn into stone. Fingerprints converged inexorably— the miracle was painfully far. I do not reckon with prayers— everything once foreign suddenly became very near. I rose, my heart fled in panic. I took pity on the world’s hatred—everyone choosing a separate roadside. Is it sorrow, or freedom, that makes the morning more bearable? Or perhaps it is a dream being born in me, whose existence I so doubted? Kiss my tears in farewell. Feed me with breath. I vow to remain here until death. I will be reborn, though the sky perishes, though the earth turns into silence. It is time to believe in light, in peace— nothing else matters.