A dark shade

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

A dark shade

Someone is over there.

She sits nearby a camp-fire. One campfire.

It is not silent, there, somehow

she knows, but no one, nobody

is having a real good Time.

Music distracts all the way

but to choke silently could

be wise.

Therefore, she runs, really

yes, she’s in a hurry now

very much, suddenly, no time

to waste!

Down the hill,

in the village she runs as

fast as I can write it here!

Running and running, sharp as can be,

enters the House. One confirmation.

It would be the Second time.

At first, she wakes the, the boss

and his friend André.

André with the lost feet.

Then, she opens all windows

and sooner, the later takes

sand in her hands, outside the House.

The fire died, that night.

And silently, she is here now,

a dark shade around her.

It is the brightest whitest light

to be alive.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Isidore Kaag, Rupt-devant-Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France

Down the River; February 22, 2019, Worldpoet 546

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

April 23, 2019

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : Hope in our universe, the rights of the photographs belong to me

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