Poetry

Antidote

With every passing day, the teeth of death sink deeper and deeper into our fragile flesh. Our restless spirits know that death is just a gate but uncertainty breeds fear. Hypnotized by your smile, I enter another dimension where light is the ruler. Where there is love. You are my escape from bleakness, yet it is in the dark that we glow the most.

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Destroy the Wall

I see you before me and hand you over a pickaxe to destroy the wall between us. The music of your soul is compelling but hardly audible, and I want to hear it clearly. Your eyes penetrate me deeply – you touch what no one can, not so intensely; yet, your mind is infected with fear – let me heal you and offer you a way out of your hell. When I think of us,…

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Diary of Loneliness

A French chanson on the radio, A vanilla-scented candle in the new, small candelabrum; Mother stole it from work. The smell of rice from the oven, A cart filled with neatly cut logs, An empty street, Leafless trees. Life on the second floor. An ever playful dog, The neighbor saying “hello”, Coffee and cigarettes, An apple instead of breakfast, Old, word-filled papers, torn from notebooks I can’t remember, An unexpected inspiration. A day when you’re…

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Poetry Month Poem #4: Mountain

Up high, where the winds blow everything away High in the mountains, where the cold freezes everything Where life and death is not in our hands anymore There I want to go I want to see, if there should be A future without me Despair, death and agony Test my will to live Set me free If I die, will it be a tragedy? If I live, will it be a blessing? The universe spins,…

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