Reclaim those parts
that you don't claim to be
part of Yourself

Restrain your brain
and start empowering
your mind instead of
spamming it

Stretch out your
arms and widen
your territory of
downright responsibility

Reclaim your ****
and shove it through the light-
and own it.

A pilgrimage does not
start on the pages
you may as well walk
around blocks and into
grocery- and coffee shops

As long as you can say
for sure the way came
from your heart
and you did not
let anyone dictate
a starting point for you

everything's well

Have coffee
cigarettes and cake
on your own path
have everything that makes
the aching fear come
out

Take good advice and
money, wisdom, sweets
take all this from your friends but don't make
doubt to be a thing to take on

And maybe you will meet me
on your way
and maybe we will chat or have
a cup
or maybe you'll walk past
and that is fine with me

And at the end maybe
you ll meet
Yourself
shake hands
embrace
and turn around to see
that is was worth it.

Horror sometimes
Seems to skip
A generation
Before it can be
Uttered and
brought to the light

Is this just me or do you too feel like
no-one will play with you cause they are
infused with fear that
paralyses and do you
too have trouble to
differentiate whether it is
your personal mind giving you
this or whether this time
really
it is not you but
truly
everyone else

do you too have the urge to
pull everyone out of their
pale stupor and show them the
sunlight still there
do you too
have the urge to stand in the streets and shout look
at me my eyes are
not contagious

do you too have the feeling
something outrageous is happening here that
we have long
anticipated and
go through
now
in the most
disturbing way

or is it
really
just me

From it
there reaches out a long
green
arm

and pulls me in, or out

reliably that arm was there
before I was
and knows my mind
my soul
my heart

I climbed down the
Stairs into
The cellar last night finding
Half of myself on the floor
At the bottom
Listening while
This half could
For the first time
Explain to me what
He did down here
All the time and I could
For the first time comfort
This part that is so
So dear to me
Like I needed to
I think we both
Climbed up the stairs
By now
Together

🐞

"Because, because our paths they cross
Yesterday was ******* all of us
On all of us"

Fink, Yesterday was ******* All of Us

🪔

She lives in
a house full of candles and lights
one for each happy thought

He walks by and feels
the warmth of her fire
on his skin and stops

and knocks on her door.

There is a room
filled with
green light and fog
and it is
unconditional
and it is love
and we are there and you
ask me
what about things like
war
the kid that died
the crimes in 36th street
the beers and that
unpleasant argument last night
are they
outside the room?
I tell you
No
nothing's outside
the room
and if it is
it's cause
you put it there

Sure you become
a sceptic if
only by revealing
your religion
people burn you
sure you become
a food keeper
sharing nothing
if all you had for decades
was just enough to save
your family
surely you skip
a beat when you hear
a car hurling
when something in you
remembers the sound
that a bomb shell makes
exploding
sure you adopted
all sorts of safe-guard mechanisms
and deeply and deeply
implanted
them in you and what followed

And I only
am here
alive
because of you
because of that

and am responsible
to see you
appreciate
and free you
my dear friend

If you were granted
just one single
colour
to see and keep and wear
for all your life-
which one would it be, asks the cat
rainbow, says the girl
and clap!
their hands touch in the
crystal air
for a high five
before they strive toward
the sleeping Cities

This tugging on
your sleeve when
a strong feeling
arises -
now you might want
to release it

❦

The giant stands up
with a shake of the hand
makes you unterstand
he could crush
every bit of your land
to his feet-
takes a big step
leaves every house whole
and walks off

Did your
Soul and Person,
too
collide and did it
propel you in
the utmost struggle
as well
Did you
like me
see yourself out of
facets of
disrupted glasses
did you
trust
everyone more than
your
inner
self
Did you,
too
grow and grow and
grow without
your outer knowing
for such a long time
Did you
throw tantrums whenever
facing
a new
thick
layer between
the two
Did you
like me
understand
only now
how
marvellously great and
powerful
you have become
through this

Think of it as if
you already
had it
cause you do

Stubborn
To cover your shyness
You stick
Your neck out of the waves
Spreading
After a courageous inhale
Your sticky wings
And push yourself
Off the ground
Soaring
Lips parting
When finally
You allow yourself the smile
That was building up
All this time:
You know how to fly now