Erasmus

  
who can anger him,
when he no longer gives a damn
about life and death
profit and loss?
that young man Luther has just left
while a salt merchant
has sent back a broken salt jar
he draws the thick winter curtains
and sits by the window reading the Bible
his slow silhouette moves me
the way I see it, he didn’t turn himself into a self-contradictory god
instead, he expressed a tolerant,
reconciled attitude to living

ERASMUS