What do I do
with your worries
mother?

Save them
like jewlery
family heirlooms?
Or hide them
with joyful
dreams and songs?

What do I do
with your worries
mother?

Carry them 
like a camel does 
with water?
Or mix them up
with flour
and bake them to peace?

What do I do
with your worries
mother?
When they become me
without leaving you?

Joris Gjata
January 2022

When somebody
approaches you 
with fear,
tell me
what do you do?
Do you want to 
talk to them?
Do you want them 
to be with you?
Do you tell them 
stay with me,
fear is not you?
Maybe.
Maybe you fear them too.
Or maybe ,
maybe maybe,
you get curious about them, 
and they get curious about you.

​Joris Gjata
November 2021