The silent listener

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

The silent listener

I thought

he sits, over there.

I thought

I was listening.

And I think

it is more

than silence.

He stood there

wondering his time

of closed eyes.

But do not speak.

I do not think

I ever saw

or listened

or have thought

one moment.

It is

the silent light.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

May 5, 2019

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9789633-i-who-does-not-ask-will-not-know

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9789634-a-sound-of-music-died-in-my-ear-by-the

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : St. Willibrord Church, In the Entrance of the Hall, Berkel-Enschot

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