𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗥𝗬: "The Memory of You" by John Benedict Salgado

 

Published by: Lean Miguel Tizon

Date Published: April 16, 2024

Time Published: 1:50 PM

Category: Poetry

Theme: A retrospective on refusing to let go of the past.

I walk through an unending drawl of creaking wood,

Walls plastered with synthetic hues of Magenta,

My lungs heave as I could only smell ashed firewood,

Still I trudge on with splintered feet, steps, oh so gentle.

I am a nomad in a dying Sahara, 

Envowed to a pilgrimage towards the mourning star,

To worship in a temple that has burnt down,

To lay my soul once more in tattered shepherd's gown.

This world is empty. You have ceased and I persist,

Still I salvage much of the embers from the faded,

This splintered sinner seeks salvagation in stasis,

In scriptures of worship I can no longer read.