Setbacks

There are setbacks in life, so fierce, I don’t know anymore!                                                                    —César Vallejo

There are days in life
so roofless and gray
that in their own sadness
they threaten to drown.

Although somewhere

—how or wherever?—

there must be shelter and light
but not always in sight.

Germain Droogenbroodt

from “The Road of Being”
Southern Arizona Press, 2023