Emptiness pulls me over the sidewalk
past the house in which also
my parents do not live anymore

Everything is different
The heart is lacking
The table massif

of the unwritten rules
preached to obedience -
a book full inside my head

I feel its weight
move when seeing
the room, so familiar

the certainties heavy
and clear again after years
of thinning, an unlosable

belief, despite
opening
the pages and

despite my way
my truth
my life without