Ilari Rahja

Sun shines.
In thine eyes, my love.
With every whisper.
Of the wind, it blows.
...

Farewell - I said.
Not admitting the pain.
For I knew.
We may never see again.
...

I sit here thinking.
Also dreaming.
Of things past.
And of a future.
...

Evening - Dark.
Yet so bright.
Every night.
You come, remind me.
...

Tonight, as I stayed alone.
An apparition came to me.
Quietly whispered, my name.
Rose, a vapor from the ground.
...

Frost circles, on a glass.
I watched.
Hour upon hour.
Through a day's loneliness.
...

'Twas early spring.
When I got out to smell.
Wood, flowers, amidst melting snow.
Last ice, early birds and all.
...

To speak, is to think - Exist.
We presume.
Throw around.
These exquisite realizations - Sounds.
...

How odd, my love.
It seems now.
For us to have strayed.
Been set apart.
...

Why?
Seniority.
Elders and life.
Do I doubt.
...

In the midst.
Of a forest.
Dark, fell and gloom.
Desire brought.
...

It was a dark - Foggy day.
When I decided to venture ahoy!
Ahead, onto the beach.
To face its sandy dunes.
...

I owned it.
As it dawned on me.
Hopelessness!
Sudden realization, of a deed.
...

Why, needless suffering and I.
Such close acquaintances.
As brothers became?
...

Breeze anew, I felt.
Amidst the heat.
As it moved.
Whispered silently.
...

Upon a moonlit meadow.
We stood and glanced.
Measured ourselves.
Took a fateful contest.
...

Another night alone.
I was doomed to spend.
Watch, yet again.
Evening's linger.
...

Something, I looked.
Something, I filled.
Some giveth meaning.
At the last…
...

Honor, pride.
My friend.
Where lies its gain?
Why, my friend?
...

What, I thought - Caught.
For myself.
I found!
Were feeble things...
...