Nothing has changed.
The body is susceptible to pain …
It has thin skin and blood right underneath …
Nothing has changed.
The body shudders as it is shuddered …
Real, imaginary, temporary, and none,
But the howl with which the body responds to them,
Was, and is, and ever will be …
The body writhes, jerks, and tries to pull away
Its legs give out, it falls, the knees fly up,
It turns blue, swells, salivates, and bleeds.
Nothing has changed …
Amid landscapes traipses the soul,
Disappears, comes back, draws nearer, moves away,
Alien to itself, elusive
At times certain, at others uncertain of its own existence,
While the body is and is and is
And has no place of its own.
– Wisława Szymborska –
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWau1Ost58
Haux – Bomegrown
Ph : Eric Kellerman