© Pawjanka ART 
© Dirk Engelage

So there you are, 
almost reduced 
to nothingness, 
almost, 
but what is left, 
land bare, 
that is the precious core 
of who you are

your soul, 
though suffering 
is what I see 
would wish to 
cherish and protect

so here and now 
my heart is reaching out 
. . .