A poem from summer 2018, about being alive and feeling passionate about life. First published in "The Courage of Living. Letters to Käbi" (Elamise julgus. Kirjad Käbile, 2019).
it’s
midsummer
it’s hot
and stuffy
a bit
unusual
for
Estonian lukewarm summers
yet this
passion
burns
inside of me
a passion
for life and my vocation
of being
alive
in the
first place
to commit
myself passionately
to the art
of living
and to do
it professionally
consciously
having
arrived
at today
and not
being afraid
to go on
new journeys tomorrow
which
always can
also lead
us astray
but they
will not mislead me
from my
pathway
because it
was and is
still mine
my
experience and my pain
my passion
lived