TONGUE WHICH ROTS NOT

They may speak noisily

With their hands

When silence has engulfed the lips
But the tongue which tasted pepper and salt

Will not go rotten

Long after the earth has covered it

Because it has spat into the heart
Into the mind and must come home to roost

JOY IN SADNESS

At the sound of the trumpet

A fleet of cars choked the entrance

Of the beautiful gate

Even before they passed

Those desperate feet  

Through The portals into them

Their bride so immaculately dressed

Like one passing through a dressed garden full of thorns

Holding carefully her hood

A while, after an entanglement

An abuse

Anticipating joy in sadness

THE LIGHT IN YOU

If you’re light will be seen in the open

It should then be kept in you

As long as it takes;

Not faded or quenched

But still blazing

If not better than before.

come

Come

Enter not with your legs to drink

But your minds to fill it full

Come

Our fountain gashes out

Your dry bellies fill it full

And become the envy

Of one If even not of all.

Come

Friends, family, foes

Come

Freely drink

Deeply fill

Oh

Come

When opened wide my eyes

When opened wide my eyes

After crying aloud so high

I know not which hands

Held me to the brow

But vividly 

Its unforgettable warmth

Which possessed all of me

Great to be young

Great to be young

Pleasant are the scenes

Which they bring along

Opening the metallic bars of youth

What happened?

The silent question

Which heard no answer.

What happened to the mind,

To the body, its action.

What happened?

I remember...

That hand which grabbed it

Which sealed it tight

To lose it easily.

I can’t remember,

... not anymore,

What happened?

Not only what happened

Why it all happened

Why I don’t know what happened

I don’t remember

I didn’t remember

... not anymore,

What happened.

I remember...

How I wished

It will stay, what happened.

If it is mine the fault to bear

If even not just ;

To end what is happening

To restore what happened .

This strength and will did all

No more can it do now

I remember only then

What it did, but

I don’t remember

What happened,

Why I don’t remember

... not anymore,

What happened.