සාංකාව

Saudade- John Freeman

means nostalgia, I’m told, but also
nostalgia for what never was. Isn’t it
the same thing? At a café
in Rio flies wreathe my glass.

How you would have loved this: the waiter
sweating his knit shirt dark. Children
loping, in tiny suits or long shorts, dragging
toys and towels to the beach.
We talk, or I talk, and imagine your answer,
the heat clouding our view.
Here, again, grief fashioned in its cruellest
translation:
my imagined you is all I have left of you.



දිනමිණ වසත් සුළඟ 12. 12. 2017