Yesterday's Laughs

Uvi Poznansky
1970 
 
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I betray. Yesterday’s laughs have left nothing in me
But a slight contempt, and the nuisance of guilt.
Were I to live again... One word there’d be
That I wanted to say. You. The lights will wilt.

Now—there is a different world, a world that calls me
Cold like pity, wishing to come alive. But
Beyond its yellow nights something has sunk, as quiet
As yesterday’s laughs, falling out of me.

Beyond, someone rises, someone whose name I
Am beginning to forget. You, you. The sunset
Is turning yellow. Betrayal, laugh, regret.
Such things, my someone, I can't forgive, can I
 
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