nourishment and joy
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touched by a poet's words
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Then you gave your name:
I shall be there
I shall be there like bread
close as a friend
like a word.
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To keep his memory
therefore, now we take
this bread; we break it, too,
for each other,
that we may realize
what lies ahead for us
if we choose to
follow after.
2 fragments by Huub Oosterhuis