Juliette Rossant

Are You Ready?

There is nothing to pack.
If you go exhausted, you will be revived.
There is nothing to pack.
Even if you go unwillingly, you will be welcomed.
There is nothing to pack.
Your bargain, your part of the mess will stay that way.

We give you a key, nothing more.
We give you a mirror, nothing more.
We give you hunger, nothing more.
We give you thirst, but you must find water.
We give you a field where you can grow food to feed yourself,
but you must stoop down and pick out the stones,
the debris,
the mess you have left there.

(April 24, 2005)

[Photo "War5.jpg" by Nir Rosen.]

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