By Sam Vaknin (palma@unet.com.mk)
Date: 28 June 2000

I need to Know You

I need to know you

even as I never know my self

that phantom ache

of amputated innocence

You,

the stirrings of a curtain, dust

settling on sepia cukoo clocks

covers obscuring

Perhaps one day you will become

a benign sentence

an agency

through which to be.


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