The Visit

 

I am only a visitor here

For a very short time

For unknown reasons.

 

I don’t speak the language well,

I don’t know the customs,

And I can’t really make attachments

Because I must be pressing on.

 

But I have another day here –

At least, I think I do.

At most another fifty years

To wile away before I have to go.

 

And this is a place for visitors.

No one is here for very long.

Let’s take the air, see a bit of the land,

Have a meal in the shadow of a mountain,

 

And see if we can even love each other

On this brief vacation from nothingness.