Requiem, by Saana Tykkä

Requiem

by Saana Tykkä

Introitus

The traveler has seen
 The same dunes before;

He carries them along
With desert-blinded eyes
And furrowed skin,

Avoids looking around.
Believes,

As the bells fall in silence,

The sand covers
The pathway behind.

Kyrie

The fingers
Of agonizing
Grief

 Caress his beloved one,
The moon, occasionally
They strangle too.

 The dark ground is concealed
With the steps of devotee.

Graduale

Woman walks the stairs:
In her hands wears
A web,

     Like a prayer to bear 

Paraffin,
The veiled light’s
Blued fingers.

She hears the shroud
Whispering

“Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine”,

And the candles’ flame
Burns the rest away.

Sequentia (Dies Irae)

The wind talks strange language
Carrying a shield of North,
Its gear and garbage

To bloom.

Yesterdays, sliced on papers
Wage war against others,

Never forgetting

That soldiers who fall on their knees
Hold pierced ribs of the land

In their cupped hands

Lies salted water
Falling from the sky,
That same

Never-ending sea.

Offertorium

A sinless shirt of fall
Is tied by its sleeve.

Binding to the line
Cuts deep, next time only
When released

Clothespins make a laugh

As the innocents’ cloth
Is offered for the breeze:

The heavens' blithe burden
Is never same
For others to bear.

Sanctus

Over the brick buildings hovers
The scent of the spireas:
A mud-covered cosmos breathes.

The moment’s fallen draws
Streams of silence,

A buried tomorrow
Waits hidden
Inside the child.

 

Benedictus

From  one shore to another
Cypresses carry fog of men

And those, who shatter as small stones,
Beneath the footfalls call
"A remembrance".

Agnus Dei

In the hands of departing
A cup of reconcilement:

In its firm hold
Is kept the dawn.

 

Communio

Woods’ frosted inhale
Waiting for heaven, talks

Light.

Before the snow,

We know,
The blooming ones of dreams,
Whom the lips of twilight kiss,
Tomorrows are gone.

 A pathway’s time
Leaves a deep memory
In the blessed’s ground,

Only the deaths shall dance
Over the meadows anymore.