Poets and writers.

Most often I speak to myself...
Especially to poets and writers
Only they come as soon as I call them
When I am, frequently in a crowd
desperately alone.....
Only they have enough patience
to listen attentively and with understanding
to my dirges, even when I forget
that they are with me, and carry on talking
as I have done all my life, to myself...
Most often I speak to myself...
Especially to poets and writers
Only their living words
and even more so their living silences
which I read from their lips overgrown
by grass, are in accord with their deeds
I also speak to some of the living
But since ten years ago
during which many of those I knew
also friends among poets
I speak to them very rarely
And more and more frequently
not in the dying tongue of my mother
but in the tongue of the dead poets that is
coming alive in these new poems of mine.

Note: Dedicated to all my friend.