How many words
have I written
you will never read
could not hear
still we speak
to each other
in a language
known only
to the dead
and the mourning
to a mother
and a forgotten
child now grown.

First appeared in Homer’s Odyssey Magazine, June 26, 2024
https://homersodysseymag.com/blog/f/missing-my-judas-dream-on-and-words-only-words-by-louis-faber?blogcategory=Poetry