Do they wonder
Do they feel
Do they ******
Do they steal
Do they whisper
Do they sing
Do they have eyes
Do they have wings

Are they golden
Are they grey
If they know us
Can they say
Would they understand our questions
Will the search be neverending?

A wall once wove all through the town
Fraught fractured freedom fenced and furled
And on the day the wall came down
It was a good day for the world

There is a little row of stones
And in some places that is all
That stands between the sundered lands
Knit back together in the fall

And you can walk across the border
Without knowing that you've crossed it
Where the guns and guards kept order
Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstraße

Only thirty years have passed
But it's not the same place at all
Tyranny is not built to last
We all know what happens to walls

you
can                  go

around                              it
but you  can  go  thro­ugh it
about                          three

times                  as
fast

Filling with hope
Like the spring tomorrow
When the rain
Washes away my sorrow

Peace fills my wings
And the fear disappears
When the rain
Washes away my tears

it is strange when I look back
at all the things I chose to say

poems about quantum physics
poems about DNA

I am quite aware that I might
come across a little odd

thinking about thinking
looking at the sky
looking for God

it gives me shivers when I see
the pattern running through it all

staring out into the void
and reaching out behind my walls

strange encrypted souls
building our bridges into the unknown

strange to feel so understood
strange that I am not alone

we see a face
a solid                          shape
handful                     ­                 of stars
no time         and empty space         no place
              no words             to erase doubt               no way              
without a
 trace

A black and shining sea of endless suns
A sky swimming with warm and spinning stones
I know that I am not the only one
Who wonders if we really are alone

The starlight rides the waves and meets our eyes
A vision of infinity in black
How many gaze with me at the same sky
And wonder whether other eyes gaze back

I always say
That I’m OK
It really isn’t true today
I am not coping very well
I wish I had someone to tell

It’s so hard being on my own
I feel so hopeless and alone
Who could I tell what I just said
So I said it to you instead

Even in the strangest sea
I know I can float
Adrift on uncertainty
I am full of hope

I wish I knew
how to deal with it all

the pain and confusion
behind all my walls

echoes on echoes
of unburied guilt

rewinding my mind
to the heart
to the hilt

crushing my soul
deeper than any nerve

a torment I still tell myself
I deserve

I see the truth
through a kaleidoscope

I'll refract it all back
I will not give up hope

still chasing dragons
far and wide
so I can say
at least I tried

but still I cry
it's not enough
I do not know
how to be loved

they fall for me
I run away
or just run out
of things to say

and so I'll stay
till something breaks
not sure how much more
I can take

I know it hurts me
and it's strange
but I do not know
how to change

of all the things
to be scared of
why am I so
afraid of love?

if I had a child
I would be afraid
of leaving them alone
with anyone
even me

something could go wrong
there are a thousand ways how

I can see it now

I would always be
afraid

A long time ago
I climbed up a hill
In some dark forest
And shouted
I am not afraid anymore!
But I was afraid
That someone would hear me
I know myself
Much more today
I can admit
That I am afraid

I am always so afraid
that I will go the wrong way

doubt in every step I take

every moment
every day

in the middle of the night
I wake and am consumed by fright

imagining I will be harmed
or that my room is full of bombs
or poison gas
or murderers

I leap from my bed in alarm

it takes some time to become calm

and find myself in dreams again
chased through the streets by evil men
or hiding from the government
a monster
or a hurricane

or just trying to take a test
I know that I can never pass
because I cannot concentrate
or arrived to the class too late

It never ends

There's no escape

I wish that for one single day
I could live my life without fear

No ticking clock
No voice of doubt
No visions of disaster

But the world is turning
It is burning

Faster and faster

And it is clear

We are all afraid
to be
here

I am calm
The storm that tore at my soul
Rains itself to sleep

Deep sorrow
Poured out on the dusty ground
I am full of peace

hide                                                                                      away
from                      the                        rain
close         your          eyes
fold your wings
when the light
shines again
ride the sky
on   the   wind

we've read this story
we know how it ends

we learn this lesson
again and again

time after time
after time till the end

till no one learns anything
ever again

watching arrow after arrow
fall from grace like countless sparrows
I don't know what I would do
if I should ever shoot the Moon

I would gain much greater glory
if I could chase closer quarry
but I aim beyond my range
so nothing ever has to change

I'm not thinking about you

they told us you were lost forever
never to come back
I prayed to all the gods to bring you back
I never knew which one to thank

or maybe no one answered
as you crossed over the night
and inch by inch
built your own bridge to life

I am just glad you are alive

what is life?
the question of the future
what does it mean



                                  to live                
         and      
                   to die?                              
                            .                              
    ­    .          
                            
                              
can you save your soul
on the one drive?

what does it mean to be alive?

what life can we recognize
when the void
gazes also

with no eyes?

who is who
and what is what?
O
what a time to be alive

All the Universe is wonderful
All the Universe is like a dream
All the Universe is beautiful
All the Universe including me

^

Infinite

I am

Just a wave
Travelling
Down a long dark road
Flashes of bright light
A tunnel
Made of stars

Neuron to neuron
This is how one mind takes form

The tower goes deep

Lightning struck

Out of the darkness

Great light
Inside
This is what the mind is like

All the things we dream
In that time machine

This is what the mind is like
Inside
Great light

Out of the darkness

Lightning struck

The tower goes high

This is how one mind takes form
Being to being

Made of stars
A tunnel
Flashes of bright light
Down a long dark road
Travelling
Just a wave

We are

Infinite

v

all the world
the words they wrote
cut and pasted back together
pirate troves  like  ransom notes
libraries of stolen  l   e   t   t  e  r  s
we  threw  our  lines  to  the  wind
some we cross   and some we blur
where our words are wandering
writing                       over
all the world

If I could reach out
Connect to all of you alike
Weave the world into one web
Then I could never run away again

If I could mould you
Into one whole
Where could I go
To be alone

we walk boldly
through a world
where we can be killed
by a drop of water
a grain of sand

we move mountains
and destroy rivers
determined to become gods
burning down eden
to tear down the stars

but in all our power
we are like children
alone in the night
we tremble
at the open question of darkness
and weep with naked fear

An open book
For me to see
A cryptic script
I cannot read

What hidden secrets
Does it hold?
I ask
Though I have seen your soul

I want to get
Inside your head
And learn your tongue
Your alphabet

To come to know you better
To decipher you
Letter by letter

love and hate
pushing the heart back and forth
like a pendulum

Good to have might, good to be bright
But being nice is better yet
For to be nice is always right
A thing you never shall regret

And it is wise to share your heart
To tell the truth, to speak your mind
Be humble, be honest, be smart,
Be brave, but most of all
Be kind

The world belongs to all of us
Not companies and kings
To one and all both great and small
The living moving things

If we should choose to burn the world
Today to turn a profit
Tomorrow never is too early
To find our way off it

I wish I believed
that there was more
to sacrifice for
eternal reward

I wish I believed
that if I believe
the angel of death
pass over my door

We paint ourselves with angels' wings
The Sun our halo melting, gleaming
We eat other animals and wear their skins
Shepherd, can you hear them screaming?
One by one, they're heard no more
Destroyed by greed and fear and violence
Let us leave them in peace before
We leave this world at last in silence

I tell myself that I hate you
deep down I know that isn't true

the truth is that I am afraid
of a love sharper than a blade

the things I hope and feel and want
are not so easy to confront

so I conceal my pain and fear
with anger
like a steel veneer

We act as if what's rational
Should always have complete control
But when it comes to survival
How we cling to the animal

lift the veil
and let you know
every savage part of me
ride the night
the storm below
let the animal be free

I'm not hungry
but I need to eat
I'm not tired
but I need to sleep

to what extent do I control
the actions of this animal?

I wish that I could understand
Other kinds of animals
Know what they think about
How they feel
What their songs mean

Most of the time
I can barely understand other people

But I can still dream

.  
     two        vines    
  wrap          around
each          other
and     grow
together
into
one new
life     form
as                 if
they           had
never         even
known       life
without one
another