Waking and Walking

i.

They walk
slowly, they
walk slowly

into your
memory of
their walking

maybe towards
you, maybe
ever away.


ii.

You cannot
remember the
dead except

the fact
that they
are dead.

They walk
slowly back
into life

or something
like it,
they walk

slowly into
your life
that has

accepted them
as dead,
dirt thrown

over them,
yet they
come back.


iii.

They know
they are
dead, so

they speak
slowly and
only about

the past
you remember
of them.


iv.

They know
they must
return to

nowhere, they
know they
must return.

They gather
in urges
to return

for they
know they
are dead.

Since they
know they
are dead,

they walk
slowly through
the woods,

slowly through
the city
back to.


v.

But he
returns to
you remembering

only pasts,
he returns
to tell

you of
the day
he died,

the day
he died
and didn't

tell you
he loved
you without

saying it,
to tell
you why

he didn't
talk to
you that

day, to
tell you
he thought

of you
all day,
but when

you cry,
he just
walks away.

ecr. l'inf.