Mir divljih stvari; Wendell Berry

Mir divljih stvari

Kad u meni raste beznađe svijeta

i budim se u noći na najmanji zvuk,

u strahu kakav bi život, moj i djece moje, mogao biti

Odem i legnem tamo gdje se drvo

odmara u svom prekrasnom odrazu i velika čaplja hrani.

Dolazim tamo u mir divljih stvari,

koje ne terete život zamišljenim žalovanjem.

Dolazim u prisutnost mirne vode.

I osjećam nadamnom, zvijezde danju nevidljive,

čekaju sa svojim svjetlima. Neko vrijeme

počivam u milosti svijeta, i slobodan sam.

Wendell Berry

Peace of Wild things

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

from The Peace of Wild Things And Other Poems

Slika: Lina Baumann