from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Instinctively, they watch — a good long while —
the child at play, whose face will now and then
come round, alive, from what was its profile,
as clear and full as any hour when
its time has come at last, and it must chime.
But all the others do not count the strokes,
and dulled by life and tedious toil, those folks
will notice not at all how all the time,
it bears all things with sufferance through its gloom,
even when tired, in its little suit,
and like a patient in some waiting room,
sits there and waits its turn, prepared … and mute.
Der Hund
Da oben wird das Bild von einer Welt
aus Blicken immerfort erneut und gilt.
Nur manchmal, heimlich, kommt ein Ding und stellt
sich neben ihn, wenn er durch dieses Bild
sich drängt, ganz unten, anders, wie er ist;
nicht ausgestoßen und nicht eingereiht,
und wie im Zweifel seine Wirklichkeit
weggebend an das Bild, das er vergißt,
um dennoch immer wieder sein Gesicht
hineinzuhalten, fast mit einem Flehen,
beinah begreifend, nah am Einverstehen
und doch verzichtend: denn er wäre nicht.
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