Friday, March 13, 2026

The Child who is Carried Does Not Know the Road is Long (African Proverb)

 






And that road

Carried

The dust simple words

Left behind

Under the August rain

When I left

For new roads

 

Yet

What I kept in me

Are secret meadows

Stony walls

And a few tears

To where

No roads

Were made to lead

 

And in the shade

Of a pine tree

Next to the bluest sea

I learned that the carry

No matter how kind

No matter how warm

Always ends in simple words

About learning to breath

Alone

In the dust others left

Before us

Under the August

Rain

 

And then

To find that empty chair

And table

For

One

 

March 13, 2026

© Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2026


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