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All was taken away from you: white dresses,
wings, even existence.
Yet I believe you,
messengers.
 
There, where the world is turned inside out,
a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts,
you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seems.
 
Shorts is your stay here:
now and then at a matinal hour, if the sky is clear,
in a melody repeated by a bird,
or in the smell of apples at close of day
when the light makes the orchards magic.
 
They say somebody has invented you
but to me this does not sound convincing
for the humans invented themselves as well.
 
The voice -- no doubt it is a valid proof,
as it can belong only to radiant creatures,
weightless and winged (after all, why not?),
girdled with the lightening.
 
I have heard that voice many a time when asleep
and, what is strange, I understood more or less
an order or an appeal in an unearthly tongue:
 
day draw near
another one
do what you can.


Submitted by sophie

Added: 25 Mar 2002 | Last Read: 4 Jul 2009 7:49 PM | Viewed: 5734 times

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