SISTER

    Roumiana Bankova


     
    Mixed feelings locked in
    a coloful box.
    I never understood,
    was the person with the key happy,
    and what does power have to do
    with love, anyway?
    Not including people,
    the world ot material things is
    pouring over me in slow motion,
    and like in a slowly rising flood
    my feelings are drowning
    helplessly screaming for help,
    but what comes out
    are millions of smudged water bubbles
    full of the fragile light
    of my simple truth.
    The colors of the carpet on the wall
    are my childhood.
    It is now outlived in the past,
    lying buried in peace
    in a foreign country
    far beyond the iceberg ocean.
    There I have a sister, and
    she possesses a colorful box and
    in the box is the key of love.

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