Olive Oil

Drawing: Anja

ODE TO OLIVE OIL

Anonymous

I would like to see a promised land
There where the sun shines all day,
And to sit under the olive tree
To dream there, dream and stay.

I would like to dream about times
When people glorified olive oil,
Standing quietly under the tree
Bare - footed on a holly soil.

I would like to see you there
Coming slowly down the hill,
Walking through the olive trees
With amphora, straight and still.

On that endless and bright day
I would like to be green oil,
Warm and sacred like your land
In your amphora to boil.