It is not Easy to be a Chinese [part II]
26/09/2009

time was simply time then

when then had not yet lost its meaning

and its beautiful summer clothestime simply passing by like innocent clouds

and honest city nomads

when gods and horses won their races

without being doped

with icy speed and flickering velocity

uncertified time not stirred up by acceleration

then in that then

when then was not tortured at Guantanamo Bay

not cunningly stripped off

in glowing Obama speeches

Romanie 66 years old

(Ancient Rome, Roma people, Romania)

had her first and last talk with the Lord

we draw a circle of

memories incense and unpretentious philosophy

we honoured that then that

for the time being we called Romanie

forgetting we were hungry had debts

and that the world was waiting

for new bricks to be built up

all for the glory of people

who never said and never will say

thank you

(oh the time being was rather short!)

peace was peaceful then

not the 2009 boring silence

waiting for the train to enter the station

peace was peace

it was not the absence of war

some cease-fire or Christmas truce

peace was deep underneath its smooth surface

it was my dear Mark

open for swimmers and divers

(surface is an illusion, but so is depth

David Hockney)

then

when humans were not yet

part of the order Lepidoptera

moths that cannot escape the flame of the lamp

[Saturday 26th of September 2009; 5:41 a.m.].

Eric Rosseel
http://zarathoestra.wordpress.com