The second pencil

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

The second pencil

In my fathers watch

no one was to be watched.

He is working, day and night.

In my office, the rules are ruled

by no rule, darkened in a far corridor,

away.

On my left side, a dark rider

rides the night, in my depth of wishes,

the dream is completely lost.

In the corridor, a young girl was

a woman, she watches as she looks,

how her Father used to work, all Day!

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

October 21, 2019

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Michael Ende – Ophelias Schattentheater

Friedrich Hechelmann

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

Copyright © Nederlandse vertaling

A.W. Sijthoff’s Uitgeverij Maatschappij bv, Amsterdam 1988

Photograph II : Michael Ende – Ophelias Schattentheater

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