(Voor de Nederlandse versie, kijk hier: https://youtu.be/8grO3prvg0k)
Not as widely lived as the days surrounding it, Holy Saturday, or Silent Saturday in Dutch, is the day Christians remember Jesus lying in his grave. On this day, when the church bells traditionally stay silent until the Easter Vigil, Sven Hulleman shares a poem that he holds near to his heart.

W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crępe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Links:
Holy Saturday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sa...
W.H. Auden – Funeral Blues: http://hetmooistegedicht.blogspot.com...