Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MEMORIAL I, by AUDRE LORDE


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First Line: If you come as softly
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Women


If you come as softly
As wind within the trees
You may hear what I hear
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
As threading dew
I will take you gladly
Nor ask more of you.
You may sit beside me
Silent as a breath
Only those who stay dead
Shall remember death.
And if you come I will be silent
Nor speak harsh words to you.
I will not ask you why, now.
Or how, or what you do.
We shall sit here, softly
Beneath two different years
And the rich earth between us
Shall drink our tears."





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