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Tranströmer, Tomas - Solitude II
Identifier
025703
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Solitude II. [translated by Robert Bly]
I have been walking a while
on the frozen Swedish fields
and I have seen no one.
In other parts of the world
people are born, live, and die
in a constant human crush.
To be visible all the time-to live
in a swarm of eyes-
surely that leaves its mark on the face.
Features overlaid with clay.
The low voices rise and fall
as they divide up
heaven, shadows, grains of sand.
I have to be by myself
ten minutes every morning,
ten minutes every night,
-and nothing to be done!
We all line up to ask each other for help.
Millions.
One.