The world needs to keep up with you
Simultaneously slow down for me
I see how it struggles with this
Maybe it just needs the right music

I wish for us both the world would move
At a normal pace and we can be free
I see how it struggles with this
Maybe it doesn’t know how to do it

I always wondered if it was normal
To lie awake at 4 a.m.
Suddenly feeling the urge to create
To write a whole novel in one sitting
To paint a masterpiece
To write five poems at once
Even if it’s just creating memories
Packing your bags and going on an adventure
Or reading three books at once
Listening to every song you ever liked
Basically do anything to make you feel alive
Even if your eyes are aching for sleep
There’s so much to do and so much to be
To do anything but sleep
But because that isn’t possible
You want the sweetest dreams
Create a life in your head
But your mind is too busy
To create a land of hopes
It’s running around in circles with energy so high it almost hurts
And then you lie there
With open heart and open eyes
Hoping for the dreams to take you far away
And when they finally come
You don’t notice at all
Suddenly it’s the next morning
And that energy is gone
Replaced by drowning noises
A swimming head of “let me sleep
Don’t give me the next day
I wasn’t done with the last one”

Take a breath too quick
and watch it fade to gray
What would you say
if I took those words away
Lifting the spirit of unconscious souls
Receiving a smile from the blind
Looking for what lies behind
Those eyes, so kind
Listening to the whispers of creatures
enlightened by the light
Of stars and the moon
Watching the bright
flying by too soon
Do you want to die alone
or watch it all burn down together
When the sun goes down
and the warmth touches the weather
Will you be with me
or will the wind lift your wings
Will you believe me
about these thousand things

I wonder what it’s like
To be as one and don’t feel half
To be so close and near
behind a shield of broken fear

Fixed by their presence
Enlightened by their life
Enchanted by their breath
Calmed by their aura

A smile that touches more
Do you wonder too?
Are you a searching soul?
Show me the signs

If it burns down now-
Would I save this feeling
Would I let it burn
Carry it out?

Slow and steady
I look down to the rocks
Between these waves
The floods of fluttering beasts

Is it a burden or a wish?
Does it come true?
Do I want it to?

Tired eyes
Fleetingly scanning the room.
To find another pair
With a light behind them.
Even with exhaustion,
Shining bright
Bright as your own mind,
Connecting the light with the dark.
Making it easier to breathe,
Letting shadows disappear.
Calm eyes.
Reassured.

You are my favorite version of a soul
Something so pure and innocent
Wrapped in my arms like a child
Holding on to this moment

People around us shaking heads
But they are just strangers
Little insignificant blurred silhouettes

They don’t want to understand
They don’t trust what they don’t know
But love is love is love is love
So please just take my hand
Don’t ever let this go

With a wand, or three
I stride through the woods.
Notebook in my hand
And a ring on my finger
Turning the time
With a thought...
still in my pyjamas.
Rolling the dice
as if the snake could get me.
Reading in the empty book,
Letters appearing for a moment,
Bookmark ready,
just to keep them.
An owl howling at
an empty bag.
„What happened here?“,
I ask myself.
Closing my arms around seven and a half books and falling back to sleep.