[Poem-a-Week] My Negative Inversion Daniel Sibaja

Never had I felt so happy, I swear, little light

                      For anyone with 
                       or without all our negativities 


Never had I felt so happy, I swear, little light 
Little did we know about sparkles when 
                                                     we also lost our way 
and my body started to bring us a thought of you 
only now can I understand about the incident 
only when you were flying over my roof and my head  
every cloud became in a silver line. 

Barely had we finished talking each other 
when lights made a spectacular play with our words 
No sooner had my home opened its door than it was destroy by you. 
I wrote a note about you, it said: “Not only will you be for all the people  
a bright stone, might be you won’t, but you will be one for me.” 

You were my negative inversion, yesterday, or now and at nights  
because all the time, little sparkle, 
ocean’s voice, me, myself, I was an eye for you.

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Daniel Sibaja was born on September 11, 1997, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. He received a  B.Lit. in Autonomous University of Yucatan with a Latin American Literary Studies. He was  awarded a First place in the Short stories Contest in CEDART-INBA 2015, a Prize in the State  Award for Short Story ‘Writing Times’ 2020, and First Prize in the International Short Stories  Award organized by Corrección Perpetuum School from Venezuela. His firsts chapbook of short  stories title are Montejo Boulevard (La Comuna Girondo, 2019) and Public Opinions (Sangre  ediciones, 2022).

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