The green gate

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

The green gate

It’s not always easy to pass an old gate

without sight in grey skies.

It is hard to believe that a woman

with eyes

that carry

tales and highest ranks

above a sky of rainbows, saw exactly,

what she could not, do.

I hardly had time, to think

but I’m determined

to believe

it is more than one tale across a green gate… .

It’s a wood in rainy days;

it wasn’t dark enough for me

because I can read in the dark.

My energy is not asked to open a gate

because a man, mankind’s nature

changes one light by love in a silent heart.

In fact, I do not wait,

it is just that I write

without my letters above silence

without any silence at all!

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

The Netherlands, Tilburg,

January 14, 2019

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : Berkel-Enschot, The Doctor’s House

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