Gethsemane – is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, most famous as the place where Jesus prayed and his disciples slept the night before Jesus’ crucifixion.
I
Constant twilight,
Constant sound:
The bleeping heartbeat
Bumping along:
Gethsemane time.
Naming the losses,
Watching them grow:
The unknown husband,
The useless hands:
Gethsemane time.
Body morphing,
Mind mutating:
Light dying,
No escaping:
Gethsemane time.
II
They sit together, his arm holding her, the woman who was,
and is no longer,
to answer or demand, while
he keeps trying to share:
Gethsemane time.
He talks with his friend, as they speak of nothings
and not of wives; while they avoid
the questions that have no answers,
except endings:
Gethsemane time.
He returns to the house that looks like home
and smells of her absence
while nothing can repair the silences and spaces
waiting for him:
Gethsemane time.
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