The Wounded Animals by Ayten Mutlu
we were the heavy deaths on the wings of speed
it was only fear feeding us
in the mouth of the fire we were living the body
we were stepping the skin through the ashes of the fire
we didn’t know after of the night at all
we had forgotten how we loved
our loves were also the wounded animals
we were the wounded animals in our loves
we were exchanging ourself with the others
our faces multiplied on our fewness
we were the others who didn’t know the others
we were too many, did we exist, we assumed
we were a long way, we got tired our voice
we buried our forests in our branches
and slept at the roots of silence
our roots also decayed in silence
we caressed the snakes of the flesh without touching
we built the ice chateaus in our hearts
in the darkness of imaginary love makings
in the frosty hearts of chateaus
we were kissing the fire on the mouth of the body
we were the wounded animals in our caverns
the tired watchman to our blood was fear
it was fear watching the house of our blood
we lost the time and got stuck in the moment
the animal inside us is clawing the marble
like a paper tearing its sentence
like a bewildered sentence tearing its paper
we are ripping the slipknots of life out
we have no ego to wear but to lie