the ugly earring

When we saw the wounds of our country
appear on our skins,
we believed each word of the healers.
Besides, we remembered so many cures,
it seemed at any moment
all troubles would end, each wound heal completely.
That didn’t happen: our ailments
were so many, so deep within us
that all diagnoses proved false, each remedy useless.
Now do whatever, follow each clue,
accuse whomever, as much as you will,
our bodies are still the same,
our wounds still open.
Now tell us what we should do,
you tell us how to heal these wounds.

(excerpt of you tell us what to do by Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

(photo from the virgin spring by ingmar bergman)

(~Through A Glass Darkly— Ingmar Bergman)

‘All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’

~Pascal