Suddenly

Human Condition, René Magritte

Suddenly something snaps in me and catches in my throat,

suddenly, in the middle of work, I jump up,

suddenly, in a hotel, in the hall, standing up, I fall into a dream,

suddenly, on the sidewalk, a branch whacks me in the forehead, suddenly a wolf howls at the moon, miserable, enraged, starved,

suddenly stars hang from a swing in a garden,

suddenly I see myself in the grave,

suddenly my head is a sunny haze,

suddenly I cling to the day I started out as if it wouldn't end, and every time you float up to the surface

-Nazim Hikmet