The pearls were your eyes, see
how they slide on the humid cloth
Every time you see me
will be as first
Nothing compares to this moment
Nothing will ever be the same
*
You should fear death by water
The water comes and takes you
You’ll see your body dissolve
and you’ll be part of the ocean
watering so many flowers
carelessly filling so many pots
You should fear the water
as your fifth element
The enemy inside of you
*
Multitudes walk in circle
and I feel easy as I see you by the window
looking at them as they go by
Everything moves under our unbelieving eyes
as our faces were molded
by the salt of the ebb tide
You look different now
Like a stranger
before death masks
*
Multitudes walk in [circle]
Multitudes walk in circles
*
In the American language circle should read “circles” – going round and round.
Next, using “by” twice one word is right above the other and the lines would probably read better as
*
and I feel easy as I see you [by] the window
looking at them as they go [by]
*
and I feel easy as I see you near the window
looking at them as they go by
*
4 July 2000
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