Night will not come

Children: Why do people have to sleep at night? Who decides on earth? Who says that the truth is always right? Who knows what is right or wrong? Why can people get ill? Why do people have to die and where do they go then? Why do people have to die?

(Karin Rehnqvist)

Night will not come

though the eye is not blinded.

Night will not come

in the grove of tall cedars,

were the dead sleep

side by side

like grey infants

in the moment of their waiting.

For other lamps

hang there in the trees

and bring out plants

of a different glow,

and the butterfly, flown

from grey swaddling clothes,

can drink winds there

that did not blow on earth

that did not come

though the eye is not blinded.

Night did not come

– only the sun vanished

(Werner Aspenström)