Poetry
Revision
there comes a time when you are moved out of the lives of others
and can’t seem to inhabit your own —
you never knew your own, it’s true,
and panic at a date that merely seems repeated —
every new day pushes you further into a past
that cuts inside you as keen as it did then
when ache was once a pain you couldn’t bear
but muted now by lessons learned at last
that what has been has been, and cannot change.
It is the years that change, slowly moving your life
into new spaces your mind may yet vacate
and so you smile in case your memories are mistaken.
Maria Grech Ganado
Maria Grech Ganado (b.1943) has won National Book Prizes for 4 of her 8 poetry collections in Maltese or English, has been published in English in the USA, UK, Australia and Cyprus, as well as in translation to 15 other languages. In 2005 she coorganised an international seminar (RE-VISIONS) with LAF (Literature Across Frontiers) and Inizjamed in Malta. She has been awarded by the State, the University of Malta and her hometown, Floriana. Maria has 3 children and 3 grandchildren.