Restless

I can hear in your voice

you were born in one country

and will die in another,

and where you live is where you'll be buried,

and when you dream it's where you were born,

and the moon never hangs in both skies

on the same night,

and that's why you think the moon has a sister,

that's why your day is hostage to your nights,

and that's why you can't sleep except by forgetting,

you can't love except by remembering.

And that's why you're divided: yes and no.

I want to die. I want to live.

Never go away. Leave me alone.

I can hear by what you say

your first words must have been mother and father.

Even before your own name, mother.

Long before amen, father.

Source: Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2001)