Old love: smouldering

fire, or a layer of ice --


quickly freezing on?

Skyscrapers collapse
Giant boulders are pebbles
to ice shove, castles
and temples do not stand

under anxious and angry violence
Every fear perishes
by itself, it cannot continue
connecting, and it splits itself

Laws are broken
but not the love
in which we live, free
from the chaos

taking space
for its own convenience
taking more and more world
but not our love

In each other's eyes,

floating in each other's eyes --


floating together.

So much wanting to

be together all day: love --


Its start and its end.

I'm nowhere really

alone as myself: always –


he's awaiting me.

Love is pliable,

you cannot build with it, but –


you can build on it.

Darling, don't keep dreaming
of the Madonna I don't want to be?
Why

do you put me high
in heaven, just for you
and the children, too good

for others, maybe
for you too, you hesitate
every day to be with me

You'd rather attribute all kinds
of things you ever saw, to me
and you mess up my name

to the beat of your heart
a wanderer's drum
who secretly married me

Was that the real reason, your wish
to leave your doings
as they were?

Don't come closer, don't
talk about all kinds of things
I love you

If you agree, please
let my hands speak
I love you

Questions are just thoughts
your body does know better
I love you

You can't prove love
though there is proof enough
I love you

My love is always there

but not always
available, yet
then there is yours

I don't need to ask anything
his shyness on my chest
says enough, breathing softly

over my skin next to
his warm cheeks
there is nothing more beautiful

than this, it is love
I can't do anything about it
I didn't do anything for it

it is a gift, the most beautiful
feeling a person can have
the peace of his surrender

to my gratitude
I will never forget this
it is an answer

forever, definite
if a promise
can be

unspoken

We are as the beach

and the sea: you never leave –


and I will return.