Life

Teaches me lessons
I never asked to learn;
kindles a flame
I never knew could burn;
awakens a depth
I didn't suspect I could yearn.

Destroy all the plans
I have made, in vain;

make me experience
all  shades from pleasure to pain...

Till on my dying day I'll be able to say
I've lived life deeply - yay!

3.8.2013

Sometimes (13/7/11)

Sometimes I watch TV from 5 to 9

sometimes I dine, and lunch, and dine,

all in the course of one hour's time.

Sometimes I gorge on chips and cake,

more often though I cook and bake.

Sometimes I'm kind, sometimes

I'm gruff, just like some days be

sweet while some are rough.

I've tried for years for this and that,

tried to fight against what I thought

was bad.

Looking closely, what I see, is neither

this nor that is me. All there is, is that I be.

der Sinn meines Lebens (13/3/2)

den Nacken meiner Katze kraulen,

wieder, und wieder, und wieder.

im Kino zu weinen.

Herzschmerz zu ertragen,

Höhen und Tiefen zu

nehmen, wie sie kommen.

Abzuspülen, wieder und wieder,

und zu kochen, neu, auch,

immer wieder.

Sucht und Kleinlichkeit, kleine

Lügen und Freundlichkeit,

sehen und dulden, im Spiegel

der anderen, im Bad.

nicht zu wissen was der nächste

Tag oder das Leben ganz allgemein

mir bringt, außer den Tod -

und dann noch, zu lieben,

alles was kommt,

wieder, und wieder, und wieder.

2.3.2013

Sleepless night (13/02/24)

sigh.

way past

midnight...

sleepless I sit

sipping soup

slowly,

watching

the silent

night shift shape:

snowflakes,

swirling by

in streetlight's

reddish glow,

piling up

for the neighbors

to shovel,

lo!