VERITY
the madrigal, volume iv
Two People I Knew
by maitiú charleton
I.
You sent me some photos over instagram
after I didn’t respond to your text
They were photos of me you had on your phone.
You had photos of me and you safe on you(r phone)
Thank you for sending the photos on -
It’s that she
just thought i’d send some pics
to
u
I liked the message, a lot,
and felt the heart I put beside your name
II.
I thought that the way the sunlight began to hit things
Was a direct expression of the joy you gave me
You know how people say the way all music is about love?
The glowing green in a leaf I saw you in, showed me: love is music
It could have just been the fact it was February.
And life was revealing itself to be true again
Or else it was real
I thought a lot about whether you and we were real
You changed the way I knew how love could feel
Maitiú Charleton is a law and political science student who spends a lot of his time writing articles, and debating speeches as Gaeilge agus as Béarla. Tá sé ag iarraidh go bhfeicfidh an domhain an grá agus fírinne atá ann lá éigin