Dear Child

by Romy Hausmann

there are doctors for everything, for both body and soul, that it’s all going to be fine now. Why else would Lena have survived if she wasn’t capable of living? If she didn’t want to cling on to life?

Where there’s feeling – even if it’s pain – there’s life that can be recovered,

self-same

ossified

laconically,

fervent

fait accompli.

circumspectly,

furtive

anamnesis

restive

non compos mentis

hitherto

abates.

conviviality,

If you can believe, you don’t ask yourself why you keep going. You just do