Psalm 83:1 O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf.

    Do not be quiet, O God.

Peace

Where is peace ... it is so quiet?

The deafening silence is screaming.

All by self ... how can it be?

It must be that I’m dreaming.

The noise, the sounds ... what’s going on?

Is it my conscience embracing?

That part of me ... what I should be

That’s frozen, stored and waving.

It took so long to get up here

And one step made me tumble.

Straight down the shaft into the pit

And still I am not humble.

Permeated with self-importance

Drinking existence’s emptiness.

Filled fully with what is not there

To drown in in waves of loneliness.

Jan Wienen