I'm shipwrecked
and this is the sea
that I fear.
The giant eye above me is moved,
to tears,
about the nature of existence.
My only concerns are my companions and a beach,
and later perhaps a wife, I don't know,
and a son.
And slowly the sea evaporates
and I become a hero
and after that a figment of my imagination.
I am the object of strange suspicion,
unless I decide now
and drown unexpectedly.
(poem Odyssee by Toon Tellegen, from the poetry collection Words do exist for that, 2005)
This is my last blog from Berlin, 2020. The last day of my artist in residence in Berlin.