Inside Your Song
By Paz Paulson-Sacks
We tell stories in the dark,
read poems to the stars
as guitars chant from minarets.
The city has surrendered.
The cars have melted.
These streets strip naked
inside your song.
I love
the wind in our clothes,
the loss of gravity
as our foreheads touch
and our fingers find refuge,
our talisman
beneath the street lights.
And I let myself
surrender
for the first time
since innocence
inside your song.
Write yourself
inside my voice.
Inscribe your incantation
to this concrete skin.
You’re so beautiful
beneath ravaged flags.
Your star-spangled body
burns the trauma within.
Another paradise
to discover
inside your song.
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Paz Griot is a spoken word poet, visual artist, actor, playwright, and performer originally from New York City. He now lives in Istanbul. He has written and published several poems, performed in countless plays and open mic events, written seven plays and exhibited his paintings, collages, and sculptures in six gallery shows in New York. He is currently writing his eighth play, and is launching a Zen meditation group.