sanama

no longing for a land exists in me

just a wish for a language

in which I would not feel alienated

for once something approachable

–––

että ollaan hiljaa samalla kielellä

kielekkeellä miksei kaikki voi

olla kielellä olla veitsenterällä

ja jossain vaiheessa evidently

–––

selvästi jos ei voi jatkaa on lopetettava but

jumping off the edge of a razor blade feels

the same as swimming into a void

–––

a void turning into a bud a bud

into an opening maybe

an opening of a tree 

a sublime forest even

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before that

a bare emptiness where one cannot

separate whiteness from darkness

silence from noise

for they’re equally