Poems

Door

Either you go through
this door
or you don’t.
 
If you go through
there is a danger
of forgetting your name.
That is the difficulty/confusion/trouble.
 
Things look at you two two times [take a second look at you]
And with shame you have to look aside
you have to let it happen.
                You have to not look for war.
 
If you don’t go through
Perhaps you meet
a good life to follow
 
[and] you protect your thoughts
[and] you continue with your work
[and] you die heroically in your country
 
but perhaps many things pass by you
many things make you blind, you get blindness
for what price? I don’t know.
 
The door itself
does not decide anything for the person
It is just a door!