Our first entry for this month’s “Heart” theme, this poem was inspired by the prompt “Put on your favourite love song/playlist, and write whatever comes to mind.”
{ pragma & the afterlife }
what have I done to deserve you?
in which life did I exude karmic goodness;
which omniscient behemoth pitied our
hamartian, dying existence and said,
「 upon you, I will bestow a sun 」 ?
what have you done to love me?
in which life did you sin so bitterly, so purely;
which stygian demon whisked you here
into the carbonesque void of my longing, saying,
「 I curse thee with the affliction of ardor 」 ?
what have we done to stand here,
my sunlight, my other?
this life was surely given to me to protect you;
this life, so that I may craft our world for you;
in this life, for certain, I’ll murmur into you,
「 my love, you are holding my heart 」 .
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