Epiphanies stood out of the crowd
Wet with sweat, and
Panting loudly-their breaths mere whispers
Of the conversations turned to a close
Years and years ago
Playing an old song on a piano, with half the keys missing
The tune went on, hollow like the wooden case that is
Full of the missing piano keys
Epiphanies stood out the crowd
Wet with sweat-their hanging cloaks a remainder of the
Coloured ashes from the cemetery
Miles away
Climbing a staircase, that gave way to a bridge every second
Crisscrossed into weaving melodies, carelessly strewn across
The old song-played with an ancient piano
We were the past of the house of the black and white butterflies
With no space left for an empty wooden case filled to the brim
With empty keys, click-clack
We were the past of our memories, disturbed into our sleep
Quiet into hardening stones etched brilliantly through flooding aches
Disturbed into our sleep-with flashes in the morning, dust in the evenings
And jagged crystals in the middle of the nights full of a sleep that made its way slowly
With an old song-The song of the night
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