Farewell to Black

Farewell to Black

Breaking bones 
with bones

that's how you left,

like bird’s leave

the colors of daylight.

There are taupe black marks

in the name you were given.

But these things stay,

mystery with its dim black shadow,

your deep enthusiasm for sadness,

                               the ebony black, 
                   deadly vertigo

that overpowered you,

like the tears I cry for myself.

The soul comes out of you

without recognizing sizes, figures.

You grope, embrace what is not.

Little by little life blew you upward,

hit and hurt you, crashing what was already stopped,

like before, like when you walked.