Come Here

we eat food we do not need.

Because of the silence.

any taste at all takes us:
away from the silence.

we watch television,
and the color, and the noise:
keep us safe
from the silence.

We speak words.

Because we are terrified.

Because It is terrifying:

where everything
dies:
every love, every
flower, every promise
and every rainbow, every
human bond--all of it--
everything falls apart in this silence

and comes back together.

Here

--

13.8.09 Amsterdam