ashes and snow

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If you come to me at this moment, your minutes will become hours, your hours will become days, and your days will become a lifetime.

I dissapeared exactly one year ago.On that day ,I recevied a letter.It called me back to the place where my life with the Elephants began.Please forgive me for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year.The letter breaks that silence.It marks the first of my three hundred and sixty five letters to you.One for each day of silence.I will never be more myself,than in these letters.They are my maps of the bird path.And they are all that I know to be true.

You will remember everything. All will be as before. In the beginning of time, the sky was filled with flying elephants. Every night they lay down in the same place in the sky and drowned with one eye open. When you gaze up at the stars at night, you are looking into the unblinking eyes of elephants who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

Ever since my house burnt down
I see the moon more clearly
I gazed upon all the Edens that have fallen in me
I saw Edens that I had held in my hands,
but let go
I saw promises I did not keep
Pains I did not sooth
Wounds I did not heal
Tears I did not shed
I saw deaths I did not mourn
Prayers I did not answer
Doors I did not open
Doors I did not close
Lovers I left behind
And dreams I did not live
I saw all that was offered to me
that I could not accept
I saw the letters I wished for
but never received
I saw all that could have been
but never will be

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