The Returning
on REM Zoe Lara (in India) (India), 23/Jan/2012 12:55, 34 days ago
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And when you came back, Matthew- and your four-year-old body stopped its shaking -and your temperature fell to nearly normal -You had lost all your words: your soft mouthsilent as a rosebud, and your cheeks litlike the sky after a double rainbowall your words flown like winter birdsas if the fit shook every new wordjust learnt off your tongue;and when you came back, Matthew, gift of god,you could have come back as a girl,your curly hair grown long in the spaceyou'd been gone, it seemed, and softer;soft as the new beautific smile on your face,benevolent, free of the world's wrongs.I held your small shape reborn in my arms;each eye shed a single tear, and I waited and held my breath.And then I saw a silent word on your face and you wereback, and full of grace, back as if backfrom the long-lost, the missing and the dead.- Jackie Kay (courtesy of my beautiful and mournfully ex-flatmate,Katie Turner)
