My left hand

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

My left hand

She is the youngest.

She is serious, very serious,

for her age.

Summer days where, there to come

and she prefers to feel

the wind in her hairs.

She is strong,

the strongest member of her family.

She is small but that is a specific quality,

if you see it, in that way.

I never thought, about my force

to say a poem

about the world,

in lovely and sweet poetry.

That’s why I became a poet.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

March 15, 2019

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : Petra Hermans – Voor een betere wereld (Tilburg, 2014)

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