Alone yet together
threads apart weaving as one
I am worried about what the future will bring
for my mother
I lit a match for you
In the calmness of my room
Rituals return to stovetops and altars arrive in
our bellies
And I shall wait three days, 20 years
Or even an age for a brighter moment
Falling in love
Like never before
On opposite sides of a long locked door
And one day looking back
I will find a reason to hug you tighter
I recall the hands touching the violin while
exiting the church
Every petal a loved one
The gathered children looking out
Sometimes I forget the sun,
but there it is again
Spring is pouring from my mouth
I'm enjoying feeling small and perishable,
Then becoming the sky
I let myself fall in
And then it all began
This drowsiness is scary
The days blurred
I kiss your ribs because I want to feel the way
you breathe
I keep the smallest stick wedged in the door
The God in me begins to pray and knows that
We sung choruses from our balconies,
To give ourselves some company,
Hiding from the phantom in our city
An overwhelming sense of contradiction,
staying away from what I love, out of love
I was waiting for the birds to tell me it was over
Afraid as a fevered child, bound to the bed,
Just look for the grace of your mother
my daughter, the health care worker
Who comes with a cloth for your head
A long forgotten astronaut, trapped in the
atmosphere
And as it spins aimlessly,
And now alone in the dark,
It remembers how to breathe,
how to close it´s eyes,
how to simply be.
Maybe this is permission, to rest, to love, to
breathe, to make beauty in madness, Music in
silence, to write letters, to say sorry, to feel our
bodies, to feel compassion.
Maybe this is a lesson in deepest truths and
simplest pleasures.
Will we ever again be asked to
stay still
to save lives?
Early spring thaws the ground enough
to make it kind to girls who run barefoot
through woods
Palm leaves glittering the sky
A hurricane of fear
And despite it all, we´re still here
Only now we understand the perils of our
fathers, and our fathers fathers
Somewhere out of it but right
Right here
Now it is our turn to take care of you
[Hier ist noch ein schwarzes Herz - müsste man selbst einfügen, wenn man möchte]
