“Days That Never Came” and “You Are Vast”
by Dadyar Vakili
Days That Never Came
Time went wrong:
The past caught up with the present
and altered the future,
forcing you to
Give me up,
And I became the
Boy who stopped waiting.
Time went wrong.
And this how it ended: you, me and
days that never came.
You are vast
as rainfall
and all sorrows are merely
a drop
winters come and plenty do they
Stay
Flowers die with the frost
I want to plant an
Eternal spring in my garden
You;
to grow
to bloom
to sweeten the air with your scent
to enchant
You:
Rumi’s mysticism
Shakespeare’s sonnets
Vermeer’s strokes
Chopin’s Sonatas
orchestrating my beats into a symphony
skipping and sweeping to the melody
of your laughter
listen
to how it sings of me being only
two branches
reaching
to embrace you
a Forest
two branches withering with shyness
growing roots so to bloom
and reach
a glance, a moment, a quantum of a thought
You
are purest gold
your eyes alchemy
Your fantasy sweeter than honey,
as home as a hug.
Dadyar Vakili graduated from CSUSM and is an actor and filmmaker. His poetry collection Days That Never Came was published in 2020. He is the founder of 519 Film Studios and is currently involved with several film projects.
