Garden Eden

Ildiko Meny

by Ildiko Meny

Story


For Barbara

Garden Eden will remain and the pain

like the three iron bands around your heart will burst

one after another

the waggon will stumble and the

first band of pain will burst
clover will grow, and the garden will follow wherever you go

walnuts can heal and of course some more prayers

and time might steal some good old memories

then the second band of pain will burst and your slippers will find a new place in a new entrance within a new home where someone is playing beautifully on the grand piano

and while playing a tune, the last iron band from around your heart bursts
new walnuts will grow, the children will run through the rain with naked feet and make the seven cherubim smile while they protect the entrance of your internal Eden

with their gigantic wings and give you special blessings


For Rebecca

I vividly remember you playing guitar in the back of a bus

packed with howling students

Do you remember the carpet we cleaned with our hands in this tiny old flat beneath the Strasbourg church?

… years later at Berlin Ringbahn, heading to a conference, spring in the air, we exchanged some small gifts and books…

I vividly remember you lying almost naked at the beach in France,

Mistral covered our eyes with sand, but we didn’t care because this was summer

of our youth in Europe, we watched this adolescent Phoenix grow its wings

I would so much love to hear from you

reading poetry from Bachmann or Ovidius while holding on the tiller and sailing

the Greek islands



© Ildiko Meny 2023-08-28

Genres
Travel
Moods
Emotional