i never knew the color of your eyes,

mistaking them for mirrors,
i got lost in the mazes and corridors
which bridge-like led me
never straight but always forward
directly to an indescribable place

if it is indescribable why do you say it?
why do you hold me like a flag, raise me
in battle, who are you fighting (for)?

a dead self. indescribable because unknowable—
open. You had said once. Every word you knew of
love. It was not enough. They fluttered

out into the void.