We're delighted to present our Poem Of The Day, presented in association with Poetry Ireland.
Today's poem is Because by Nidhi Zakaria Eipe - read it below.
because nothing is like anything
else, an approximation will always break
down when you need it most
because nothing is as soft as a horse's muzzle
at the curve, above quiet punctuations of hair,
thin pointed teeth guarding tenderness
because I had just been, that morning,
at my college graduation – looking gorgeous
in that dress – where the speaker urged:
I hope you will be vulnerable
with each other, that you will be open
to giving and receiving vulnerability
because he touched me without asking
saying: you are like nothing
I have ever seen before
like how I am touching this horse
feeling its likenothingelse before, us
two silken manes, two hurt mouths
I am so gentle with you between my hands
but tell me / strike my face / pull away
do you not want me to
blow slow into the open black
tunnel of flared nostril, wet
dark animal breathing back
that’s how they kiss – a passing
stablehand spoke in my direction –
and I believed him
I believed him
not / because it was true
but / because I wanted to
