Orrestranda

Paula Robles Nettel

I sat alone at night in Orrestranda 

I saw the sky and stars

I heard the sea 

going back and forward in the dark 

I feared no more my mind 

my anxious state of mind.

I sat alone at night in Orrestranda 

I was one star or the full sky

I was a grain of sand

of the soft dunes around,

I was a drop of the ocean

and the vast sea as well,

I heard, I was 

the waves that came and went,

I felt darkness without pain

I was the universe

In its simple and its vast sense

I existed as before

but the faucets of my eyes 

have started to close

vanishing as the thoughts

of the turmoils in my soul.   

Life over death is a soft flame

soothing warm in my heart

there is careful hope in me again

a late bloom perhaps will come 

in this autumn spring of mine. 

On the darkest night in Orrestranda

alone by the fire, I didn't feel alone,

I was the universe 

and with the universe

in its simple and its vast sense

I was meant to exist as before,

but I was meant to exist as well 

in a life without inexplicable pain. 

From Orrestrandet / Hundvåg 4.09.16