Liebestraum II | Sojourners

Liebestraum II

A poem.
Illustration by Bernard Leonardo

Fear turns me into a tree.
Every pruning healed
becomes an eye.

Sunlight plays the leaves,
each a pool of green incandescence,
a window to the heart.

Every wound a hieroglyph.
Each whisper a new chord.

Come inside my radiant dream:
a phoenix fruit ripens unseen.

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