leave

[Translation]

I leave one time. Then I remain.
I leave maybe twice.
But then I will stay…

If I am left I will remain once
and hesitate
maybe twice… I don’t know.

I’m right, I will think.
I take the shortest way, the most beautiful road,
and also the fastest way,
the road along abysses and elegant ruins,
the road along poppies, along screaming seagulls

the way home.

Poem by Toon Tellegen from ‘Daar zijn woorden voor’ [There are words for]