Almost without Noticing - Eira Stenberg

Almost without noticing,

without thinking, it seems,

you've arrived where you see far.

Thirty years back, more, the path vanishes,

thirty years ahead, more, the path vanishes:

and you're forced to sit down in your own shadow

to think.

Memory,

mother of truth and myth,

tell how the terrain divided the stream.

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Eira Stenberg (born1943) Finland

Translated by Hervert Lomas

Source: Best Poems Encyclopedia