Can you hold out?

Questions

By Bertold Brecht

(-From the collection written during the second world war
-translated from the German)

Write me what you’re wearing. Are you warm?
Write me how you sleep. Is your bed soft?
Write me how you look. Are you the same?
Write me what you miss. Is it my arms?

Tell me: are they letting you alone?
Can you hold out? What will their next move be?
What are you doing? Is it what should be done?
What are you thinking of? Is it of me?

Questions are all that I can give you, and
I take what answers come, because I must.
If you are tired, I cant give you a hand;
Or hungry, feed you. Thus, it is as though
I’m not in the world; did not exist;
It is as though I had forgotten you.........