Title: New Moon

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

Title: New Moon

Kasia Dominik 

Title: New Moon

I sit on the windowsill. Deep in the night

I draw maps in the stars that don't lead home.

Loneliness is nearby. I don't remember since when.

It's silent. It knows we have nothing in common,

though we both bear the stigma of death on our skin –

the touch of a hand that broke the contract with life.

Not dying, yet departing, I hear the clock.

It hesitated twice, before and after midnight.

I ponder over a spring leaf. Falling

it's not ready to expire.

And over a bird that crashed into the windowpane

not because it was flying at breakneck speed,

but because it didn't know where the sky ended.

The deaf walls stare eloquently:

– sometimes it's enough to pause to stay

and not plan two boards.

Kasia Dominik

(Poland)

documentation : Waffaa Badarneh