who found you, who placed you, who pulled, and wailed, and needed you?
and who will be, and why did she, and who'll be there at your funeral, gazing to the cold ground?
to keep from harm the little invalids we both shell.
to sit up in the eyrie, keep you from that neverending atrophy.
and who is he, and what does he, and what right has he to be here?
and who's coming, and when coming, and why do i persist in my waiting 'round to find you?
quiet's dogged the heels of my whole life, so brief.
well i'm on my own, nobody waits there: the great comedy is that this was ever my belief.
well why should i, and why should we, and who made it up in the first place?
and if i did, would you still; would you follow me, and do you also have days where you can't breathe?
are there days where you see everything?
and you stumble through these, you're like a raw nerve, you're flayed open to the muscle and the bone beneath.
and whose arms did, and whose legs did, and whose backs held you up in the meantime?
what sorrow, how joyless: his signals were sucked up by the darkness, the absolute zero.
i know in my core, there's no-one listening for me.
still, i've carved your name into this hillside, so rest in peace, yahya, perhaps not wanting to survive.
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