The Salt of Pain

 * A Point in Time *

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The Salt of Pain

I tasted the salt of pain

How it

shrieked and shrilled

through the veins

The eyes see no form

The ears hear no tone

Pain was a cold body

drenched in sweat.

And you said

that you have

eaten more rice

than I have

tasted salt.

My pain

is temporal.

"You playmates of mine ...."

You playmates of mine in the scattered parks of the city,

small friends from a childhood of long ago ...

When we were filled with joy

it belonged to no one: it was simply there.

And how it dissolved among all the adults who passed by

and in the fears of the endless year.

Rainer Maria Rilke