From All Directions

Kurt F. Svatek D. D.

How many thousand years the wind kept blowing
words over cities, which are always far too noisy?
There never has been any sentence smart enough
not to be over voiced by all days’ hurly-burly.

Life in the caravansarays and taverns
may differ from the life lead at the altars,
and yet all speakers at all places ever
have but recognized their own word as truth.

And so the warrior’s profession had been born,
and there is no spot spared by all of this,
until the stones that used to weave up buildings
lie scattered on rubble tips, withering away.

And then, how many years die wind will have been blowing
words over cities not so loud no more?
Because there never is a sentence full of peace
enough not to be over-voiced soon by the hurly-burly.