Notes on Pain

1
between us
a wounded silence
of pain, torturous
across the room
endless horizon
of invisibility
studied distances -

your eyes
gaze furtively
i catch them
and quickly
you turn away

i sit transfixed
feverishly nursing
a throbbing head
you swing and fling
arms and voice

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poem by Aida Santos
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