© Janneke Gerth 
© Dirk Engelage

The mirages 
of those that were

so clearly dead 
and gone forgood

that sometimes 
I'm confused 
and have a hard time 
to believe my senses 
to believe what 
mind keeps telling me

that they no longer 
do exist ...

But when I 
go to sleep 
or waken up 
these words, 
these thoughts 
just don't make sense

because in me 
there seems to be 
the weird idea 
that they are here 
for all eternity