Forgive The Stone For Its Silence

Forgive The Stone For Its Silence

Forgive the stone for its silence

Forgive it for keeping a secret:

How loneliness pours over

Your mind and the minutes pass

Drop by drop into an empty circle

That expands like a fearful eye.

Forgive the bird that with its breath

Wants to be your friend.

Forgive your shadow for following you

And the wind for leading you in circles.

Stare at the narrow blades

And say to something small: come

With a flutter like that of birds descending

On sunflowers from a blue calm.

Stevan Raičković