Another poem from Lennart Sjögren's latest collection

To some extent I think I know humans

and to some extent I think I know animals

we live together after all

can touch and smell each other

have different ways of expressing emotions

Everything outside this is unknown to me

but I am not referring here to monsters

not to angels and not to

so much talked-about demons either

If I were to say that physically speaking

it is smaller than midges

or larger than lions

it would be an insult

both to midges and to lions

I am not even sure it materially exists

But it is there even so

and tells me both day and night

that I must mention it

if at least to a certain degree

I am to speak the truth.