THE STANDSTILL OF SILENCE

THE STANDSTILL OF SILENCE

Silently
like a snowflake
Christmas came
At the junction of the night
it met the standstill of silence
Although tired of traveling
breastfed the starving children
The Holy Evening was a guest
of the people

Christmas remained not long
with its wonder, tied up its bag
filled with wishes and songs, and left

Only the irony
it could not take with him,
so it hung it as decoration
on the branches of the Christmas trees

Bonn, 27.12.1995

Hussein Habasch 1948 – Kurdistan (Syria)

Translation Hussein Habasch – Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley H. Barkan