Can we give this a go
Without pain
Just one more time
Before leaving
By recalling life’s
Bitter blessings
And forgetting
How bad its become

Though our hearts
Miss having their chance
As tomorrow’s light
Depicts shadows
Of an unfair dream
Unobtainable
On walls inside
Where we sleep,

Casting doubts
Like shapeless attempts
From each morning sun
Begging difference
Despite years grown ill
After waiting
Too long for change
Which escapes

When that promise
Eludes every hope
Being faultless
Despite feeling guilty
Or sharing fates
So eternal
No death could slight
What they grasp.

Even trapped
Such poetry speaks
Between soulmates lost
Behind windows
Whose hands held tight
Cannot leverage
While believing
Freedom exists,

Far away
Among open worlds
Hearing music
Distantly playing
How such saddest songs
Deserve repeats
Letting love
Speak lyrics again.

• J. Pigno