Monday, 25 April 2022

Cees Noteboom: 'Hoor de muziek' (from: 'Afscheid', 2020)

 


Hear the music but not the words,

dancing movement, but no one present.

Poem, but without a reader.

Time, but without the numbers.

 

How many mysteries can you cope with?

The friend who died but no longer could speak,

the other friend who in his final bed

described a circle with his hands,

 

by which he meant travelling. That was

a farewell, and I understood it, I was

still to travel on further, circles around the world

until I could be with him again,

 

or he with me, a futile promise.

 

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