Doina Cornea - Kee (oil on cardboard)

Fragility

Doina Cornea

Fragile is the fate of the world within us,
A mere spider’s thread,
The splendor that binds it
Shatters so easily…

Opposing it, only a thought
Opens in us, deep,
An irreversible wound.
One thought is enough
To unravel
The stars’ hour of blame,
And the gentle tears
Dripping into flowers
From the white eyelash of God…

February 1986