The Parting Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

The partition

Here in this landscape of bushes and crippled trees
the grotesque peace of daylight ghosts

Grey boughs stretching upward appeal to
a soundless god.

"Give us today a new life." There is only one deity
the almighty one goes under the name of Silvanus.

Those who do not understand this are doomed to
a life of empty pursuit of pleasures.

Nightclubs and casinos, people trying
not to be alone in the night and face the truth

In a black frame, seeing you seeing through you
and into an ever-expanding void.