After Talking To A Friend Poem by Dorota Szumilas

oblique statements...
with silent heart

do you talk to me
or perhaps you are not willing to speak
my Friend

do you hide
words of friendship
your wounded pride

fascination...
with song
poetry
color
human being

oblique statements
perhaps silence

mysteries
read with the heart
and only before God
opened

the world arranges in a beautiful way
show a particle of it
do not conceal it
God
thank you for this talk
silence
it is
and shall remain
beautiful

silence

(transl. Annaya Chomczyk)