#waited for you

“My heart born naked 

Was swaddled in lullabies.

Later alone it wore 

Poems for clothes. 

Like a shirt 

I carried on my back 

The poetry I had read.

So I lived for half a century 

Until wordlessly we met. 

From my shirt on the back of the chair 

I learn tonight 

How many years 

Of learning by heart 

I waited for you.”

- John Berger. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, 1992.

Art: Amedeo Modigliani. Seated Nude, 1916.