Listen to my Silence

 Nanne Nyander - Poems and Paintings

Can you look inside me,

can you see who I am,

or do you only see this shell of interpretations, 

which you create in your head?

Look at me,

see me for what I am.

I’m not what you see,

I’m not what I have done,

I’m not this construction of flesh and bones,

that one day will decay and vanish.

I’m not this mind,

I’m not your interpretation of what I say, do, or write. 

The best way to know me is to never have known me, 

meet me with closed eyes and listen to my silence, 

then you might know me.

Meet me beyond the veil of illusion.

Meet me where you and I are one.

Here you can truly know me,

as I know you.

Beyond the illusion of this made-up reality.

-Nanne Nyander "The Struggle of Going Nowhere"