À l’heure du tout à l’image et du buzz sans suite, «l’express» souhaite faire découvrir la plume de poètes, de chanteurs, d’écrivains et de tous ceux qui jettent leur âme sur le papier, et qui mettent en mots des réflexions profondes.

Paper notes to a fellow human, May 18

To a fellow human, IV

Daily human woke up to the gentle sun,

and to the quiet thread

that had gathered this past month of April;

Steady, gorilla strength,

honest, reflective love,

and the courage to connect again.

She wondered,

“How to sustain this now?”

“For connection is beautiful in its beginning,

radiant in reunion,

tender in discovery,

yet what of the days that follow?

The ordinary Tuesdays,

the silences,

the misunderstandings,

the slow hours where nothing grand is said?”

Daily human stepped outside

and noticed the trees still standing

where she had seen them yesterday.

Roots deep in the soil.

Branches spread open to the sky.

Connection, she realised,

is less a spark

and more a tending.

It is returning.

It is listening again.

It is choosing,

again.

Sustaining connection

is watering what once bloomed

and trusting it will bloom again.

It is understanding that

strength gathers,

self-love deepens,

and connection stretches.

Daily human,

dwelling, breathing, seeing, and living,

noticed the shopkeeper cycle past on his bicycle

as the needle struck two in the afternoon,

singing under his breath;

“In the second month of twenty twenty-six

True life gave to me

Love for myself,

A bucket-full of strength,

Courage to connect,

And steady hands to build a basket.”

And she smiled.

For sustaining connection

is quiet.

It is found in the daily return,

the check-in,

the apology,

the laughter,

the moment held just a little longer.

It is choosing to remain

when all feels slow.

This fourth week of May,

let us remind ourselves

that connection is necessity.

It asks for patience.

It asks for care.

It asks for us.

Presence.

Fellow human,

you do not have to begin again each day,

simply continue.

Continue loving.

Continue strengthening.

Continue reaching.

And in that continuation,

we sustain not only connection,

but the quiet miracle

of being human together.

And that is connection, fellow human.

Connect, again.

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Rebecca D’Souza

An kolaborasion avek Caudan Arts Centre, li finn diriz bann latelie lekritir kreatif depi 2024. Li oter “89 Questions to the Moon”.