The Observer Poem by Den Dooven Diederik

The Observer

Does he stand there
In the rain
Waiting for
God or

A bird
A sparrow hiding
Low in the grass
A milquetoast step away from him

Adorned in ripened green
A limestone armor
His head turned
Waiting for a celestial occurrence
As if he sees the joke now
Does he wait for nothing
Or

Only for a passerby
To give him a name
Or

Is he, like Erasmus
Just
Watching a warbler?

The Observer
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