Expose Poem by Vernon Adrian Emuang

This shard of light
that skates across my heart
Your presence silent
but deeply heard.
Drawing white upon white.
I shy away to avoid the cracks it illuminates
but the truth pursues me
This hyena pack
that gibbers and laughs in my wake
The truth follows me
I am your bride and that is my train
As we dart through our muddy
garden wedding.

Tell me now that what we had was good
not bad nor sour
Good as good can be
Good as caged by a memory that refuses to fade
Good so good that now replayed
brings acid tears to slide
down the cliffs of my stoic defiance.

What plays now?
A different melody
Tearing away at the notes which together
we had placed on a single page.

I am inside out with nothing more to give
Nothing left to ask
Nothing to be done
Nothing nothing nothing.

Your silence is a painful shard
and it cuts deeper than
I was ever prepared to see.

(for D.)