I Sewed Together
In the mist nobody writes out
by hand like signs.
But you are walking along some roads
with the thought which knows
only and solely itself.
And the loneliness lifts a mountain.
And our bodies are too heavy to us.
How nobody flings open his arms
till the end – for an embrace
and again at the end he dies – crucified.
And like signs somebody has written out
in fire:
“Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin”
The born of dust - weighted out
and separated.
I sewed together a sackcloth* of my skin,
to be at ease.
*Jews and other nations used to wear sackcloth around their waists at the time of misery,
penance and sorrow.
Copyright © Bozhidar Pangelov | Year Posted 2011
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