Looking for My Soul's White Dress


looking for my soul's white dress
in research
and writing
and reading great works


looking for my soul's white dress
in causes
and crosses
and loving til it hurts


looking for my soul's white dress
I end up where to start
leaving pieces of my wardrobe
at every broken heart


dressing up my shards of soul
in every way I can
and you just stand there naked
and remind me who I am
looking for my soul's white dress

~XineAnn




Once, and now


Where have you been that you come so late,
while clothes have missed the clothes
and now remember to the body
that it can recognize just itself?
Once, in a disreputable slum
I threw a knife against you,
but it was another, it was not you,
albeit by looking you also come
as reading to the one who reads
as blindness to who turns blind.

~Matteo Villa