Poem - MAG Poetry Prize 2010
Green Park (Tuesday 12th of June 2007, 6.30pm)
by
Helsinki, Finland
Green Park in the evening
almost 6 o’clock,
I heard a beating heart
Then the beating stopped.
A friend to you said
“What’s gone is best forgot”,
Sadness is the same
If we know each other not.
You never saw it coming
Then the cradle rocked,
Summer disappeared
With suddenness and shock.
Green Park in the evening
Just past 6 o’clock,
I never knew your name
I never turned to watch.
Your voice was like a leaf,
I searched the tree tops
Looking for a leaf
That maybe wouldn’t drop.
Forever life had changed
You counted what it cost,
It always starts to rain
With suddenness and shock.
Green Park in the evening
half past 6 o’clock,
A stranger sometimes says
Something he should not.
I just walked away
Which maybe says a lot,
My tongue was tied again,
It is more than it’s not.
I wrote these words for you
They’re less than what you lost,
But maybe you survived
The suddenness and shock.
Added: 17.04.2010
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