On the Way

You have arrived there today. Today you walk upon a ground where my small hands built houses with its stones with the red pits of its cherries, beside the clean stone house, planted a melon patch and the turquoise clay kettle filled from the silver waves of the water and poured it at the foot of the bushes. Today, today you have arrived there. Now look: over there by the river at the foot of that mountain above the watermelon patches see that house! The doors have no keys in the house there is firewood in the house there is a candle in the house there is a bed the kettle is beside the hearth. Pour some water at the foot of the bushes. The washed kettle fill it set it on the flame. The door but don’t close ...