she shouted and coloured my face
with shades of yellow
from the roses in my arms
I looked down
The Roses!
Weren't they fading as they were lying there?
They lived with her,
but she was running over there
light leaps
roe-deerleaps
through fields
over asfalt
Suddenly with me;
"Take my dress!"
she whispered
unnessecary intensevely
and ran freely in
lace
through gardens
between trees
I felt the warmth from the cloth
bundled on my stomach
while I watched
her movements
with a sleeved look
Again she came to me
"I can't live as a human being!"
She shouted and reached her arms
up to the skies above
"I am a swallow!
A spellbound swallow!"
She looked at me
with heavy eyes
I looked at her, my mouth was not wide open
I felt the freedom stream towards
me from her
I gathered my thoughts
for a brief moment
before I sank back
My tired eyes searched
in a foggy world
Where was she?
The Roe-deer?
A thump, a jingeling sound
"Oh My God!"
A voice, unfamiliar to me, not
her velvet
I screamed
and ran
Throught fields
over asfalt
to her
She lay
face down
in front of the greedy creature
that had stolen her
from me
It smiled maliciously with the headlights
while its dispairing subject
touched her lifeless body
I threw yellow, faded roses
smelled the aim of her from light clothes,
blinded by tears,
cursed the sky
it had tempted her
away
because above me flew
a beautiful swallow,
scouting with roe-deereyes
Vehement stroke with the wings
above fields
above asfalt
~Ingvild Gregersen
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