FULL MOON ON TOP OF A CHAMPAGNE PALM'S TIP

ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW

IF this time she
finally closes the curtain of her room
and rests
she must be the luckiest woman
for this last month of
the year

she had been depressed all these years
and had attempted to end her life
silently
in small doses of her loneliness
now she cannot talk about it
her brother caresses her hair
and touches her thighs
blue and hurting

so if she dies on the last month of this year
she must be happy
she will start another year there
away from those
who say who love her real and yet
in any small action visible
even with a lift of a finger
never really did.