There are so many insects this summer.

As soon as you go into the garden

a buzzing swarm of flies besieges you.

The bumblebees are nesting in boxes you made for birds,

the wasps have made their nests in hazel bushes.

And sitting at your desk in the attic room

you constantly hear a buzzing, and don’t know

whether it’s the sound of bumblebees, wasps,

electric wires,

a plane in the skies, a car on the road,

or the voice of life itself wanting to tell you something

from the inside, from your inner self.

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