Colleague
I don’t know you
though I see you
I don’t know you
I notice how
you wear your hair
the way you walk
you look at things
the way you talk
it doesn’t give away
if in the morning
you like to stay
in bed but
come to work
because you must
do you grow
in what you do
I don’t know
strangers in the night
yet more than passers-
who fear the sight
of what we see
on the daily news
which we talk about
while working
for our needed meal
to keep the fire burning
you and I
I don’t know you
though I see you
I don’t know you
colleague
Joke van der Ark
Nr. 377b – 20 oktober 2001