The two hands

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

The two hands

At night, late at night

I, suddenly, and accidently,

look at my two hands.

It all changed.

The body bears another language,

lately in my days.

The mind is an expression of the lost

and last heart out of time.

The right one, at the left side

has seen more than you all would

have loved to see.

Any way.

On the left, my left side,

two hands have been changing

a whole human race

by waving to all deep oceans.

You see, I learned to talk right,

think left but my one left hand,

it really made a particular sound,

no one ever heard.

One day is glittering,

like white, silver coins in it.

The Time has been taken away, forever,

and All that you all hear,

is a twinkling tiny letter.

Tomorrow will surely bring you,

another author.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

October 7, 2019

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9097593-aber-das-ist-eine-andere-geschichte-und-soll-ein-andermal

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1639822624

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Michael Ende – Ophelias Schattentheater

Friedrich Hechelmann

Copyright © 1988 by K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart-Wien

Copyright © Nederlandse vertaling

A.W. Sijthoff’s Uitgeverijmaatschappij bv, Amsterdam 1988

‘Zo,’ zei Juffrouw Ophelia, ‘en is dat niet naar, om bij niemand

te horen?’ 

‘Zeer verdrietig,’ verzekerde de schim haar en zuchtte zacht.

‘Maar wat kun je er aan doen?’

‘Wil je bij mij komen?’ vroeg de oude juffrouw. ‘Ik heb ook niemand

bij wie ik hoor.’

‘Graag,’ antwoordde de schim, ‘dat zou geweldig zijn. Maar ik moet

dan wel aan u vastgroeien en u hebt al een eigen schim.’

‘Jullie zullen het best met elkaar kunnen vinden,’ zei Juffrouw Ophelia.

Haar eigen schim knikte.”

Photograph II : Michael Ende – Ophelia’s Schimmentheater

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