A WINTER LANDSCAPE

There is a terrible silence

among the white snowfields,

under the deep blue sky

where the disk of the sun

in cold yellow hangs.

Colours driven to their extremes,

sterile and pure,

the soundless landscape

clean like a hospital

and as devoid of hope as a hospice.

We are all patients

here, in this painting

done with an intelligent hand

and without deep feeling,

lacking compassion to the stranded figures.

28.02.2018