EMPTY SPACE

There were two kingdoms only: the first of them threw out both him and me. The second we abandoned.

Under a bare sky I for a long time soaked in the rain of my body, he for a long time rotted in the rain of his.

Then like a poison he drank the fondness of the years. He held my hand with a trembling hand. “Come, let’s have a roof over our heads awhile. Look, further on ahead, there between truth and falsehood, a little empty space.”