Ten Conversations for Health

Listening to health
There is a silence,
A listening to conversations,
Of illness and health.
First, to people who are ill,
A talking with the eyes,
Open as moons,
And sharp and focused,
As the stars.
Twinkling as you listen,
To their conversation,
To disease and life,
To fear of death,
To the everyday,
And the web of stigma,
Which speaks and does not listen.
The line between health and illness,
Is as thin as the horizon,
Which the sun passes over,
In a few moments,
Of blood red sunrise,
From health to illness,
Like from night to day.
The ill are you, and you them.
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