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“
From the icy niche where men placed you
I lower your body to the sunny, poor earth.
They didn’t know I too must sleep in it
and dream on the same pillow.I place you in the sunny ground, with a
mother’s sweet care for her napping child,
and the earth will be a soft cradle
when it receives your hurt childlike body.I scatter bits of earth and rose dust,
and in the moon’s airy and blue powder
what is left of you is a prisoner.I leave singing my lovely revenge.
No hand will reach into the obscure depth
to argue with me over your handful of bones.“
—
Death Sonnet I, Gabriela Mistral
(via serpentinesleekness)
reblogged from So Red the Rose.
