Dying for answers, poem by Daniela Elza

    between two bridges by the water
    I ask the same
    question
      everyday
          (their faces waiting.

    they say it is mist
    rolling in from the sea
    that turns

      this city into
          silhouettes and shadows.

    the sun—a moon—barely
    makes an appearance today
    even I

      can stare at it
          (with a clear conscience.

    the crows on rooftops grow

    impatient

          (loud

    we live beneath construction
    cranes suspended in this mist
    metaphor

      moving words like packages

    packages

          (like questions.

    of the dead

    we do not speak just dream
    and hope

        we do not see
        (their faces waiting at the crosswalk.



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