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DELAYED REACTION

- Subiksha Krishniah


Beautiful sunshine
shining warmth
picking out dust in the cracks
of memory.
I must hurry
to write before the cracks
cake into crevices in the
rock.
Inflation hits breakage
when I have loved you into idleness.
My heart trips now
when I have missed you.
A world of time to show
why God loves your metaphors.
I who met faithfulness
with contempt:
I pay now an ancient debt.
No longer second best;
not pity poetry now;
no childhood consolation prize.
Forgive the pain of second love.
Seven times brighter
for forgotten wounds,
I now pay the debt:
First daystar, healing-winged,
I love you,
Beautiful sunshine.